On the Dependence of Planetary Spin on Mass

Francesco Meneguzzo; Lorenzo Albanese

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On the Dependence of Planetary Spin on Mass

Francesco Meneguzzo, Lorenzo Albanese

Published in American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Volume 2, Issue 3)

Received: 26 June 2014 Accepted: 9 July 2014 Published: 20 July 2014

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Abstract

The recent direct spectroscopic observation of the spin of the young gas giant exoplanet β Pictoris b was a powerful clue as to the general validity of the trend of the planetary spin with the mass even outside the Solar System. Nevertheless, the spin-mass relationship, which looks like to hold irrespective of the planet composition and radius, is admittedly poorly understood. On the basis of bilogarithmic regressions, the rotational kinetic energy is found to explain the available data more significantly than the equatorial rotation velocity but no more than the spin angular momentum; nevertheless, only the rotational energy turns out to be closely proportional to the square of the mass of planets, suggesting its possible close and direct ties to the planetary mass by means of some fundamental processes. The hypothesis is made that such underlying physical processes can be described by the non-gauge cosmological theory of byuons, which proved useful to explain other astrophysical and geophysical puzzling phenomena such as the motion of pulsars, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the anisotropy of cosmic rays and the accelerated expansion of the Universe. It’s shown that the theory of byuons is able to explain the observed close proportionality of the planetary rotational kinetic energy to the square of the mass.

Published in	American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajaa.20140203.11
Page(s)	27-33
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

β Pictoris b, Planetary Spin, Spin Angular Momentum, Rotational Kinetic Energy, Planetary Mass, Theory of Byuons

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Francesco Meneguzzo

Institute of Biometeorology, National Research Council, Firenze, 8 Via Caproni, Italy
Lorenzo Albanese

Institute of Biometeorology, National Research Council, Firenze, 8 Via Caproni, Italy

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