{"id":18,"date":"2019-05-04T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T21:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/?p=18"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T02:02:50","slug":"solar-system-rotation-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/2019\/05\/04\/solar-system-rotation-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar System Rotation Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/ss_rotation_curve.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/ss_rotation_curve.png 812w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/ss_rotation_curve-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/ss_rotation_curve-768x579.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><figcaption>A rotation curve for the Solar system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a plot of each planet&#8217;s (and dwarf planet&#8217;s) average rotational velocity in its orbit around the Sun, plotted against its average distance from the Sun.  The curve that they trace out is the &#8220;rotation curve&#8221; for our Solar system, which is &#8220;Keplerian&#8221; in that it follows the predictions of Kepler&#8217;s laws of motions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, see the MilkyWay@home <a href=\"https:\/\/milkyway.cs.rpi.edu\/milkyway\/science.php\">science page<\/a> that this figure was created for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis is a plot of each planet&#8217;s (and dwarf planet&#8217;s) average rotational velocity in its orbit around the Sun, plotted&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/2019\/05\/04\/solar-system-rotation-curve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Solar System Rotation Curve&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":17712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}