The Angular Momentum of the Solar System
太阳系的角动量

荣琴 仓
2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics  
The angular momentum of the Solar System is a very important physical quantity to the formation and evolution of the Solar System. Previously, the spin angular momentum of the Sun and the orbital angular momentum of the Eight Giant Planets were only taken into consideration, when researchers calculated the angular momentum of the Solar System. Nowadays, it seems narrow and conservative. Using Eggleton's code, we calculate the rotational inertia of the Sun. Furthermore, we obtain that the spin
more » ... gular momentum of the Sun is 1.8838 × 10 41 kg•m 2 •s −1 . Besides the spin angular momentum of the Sun and the orbital angular momentum of the Eight Giant Planets, we also account for the orbital angular momentum of the Asteroid Belt, the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, the Ninth Giant Planet and the Solar Companion. We obtain that the angular momentum of the whole Solar System is 3.3212 × 10 45 kg•m 2 •s −1 .
doi:10.12677/aas.2016.42004 fatcat:34bys62h4nh7zmdruk7z5adaom