A Primordial Origin for Misalignments Between Stellar Spin Axes and Planetary Orbits · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.5166/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA Primordial Origin for Misalignments Between Stellar Spin Axes and Planetary Orbits — mentioned by kartikkumarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12750796urn:hackerpapers:mention:1304.5166:12750796Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:20:44 GMT<p>It&#x27;s not that it hadn&#x27;t been hypothesized before, it&#x27;s rather that the numbers that they attribute to this hypothesis stack up well against a lot of Solar System observations. In other words, the hypothesis is not merely that there is another large, undiscovered planet in the far reaches of the Solar System, but rather the details of its mass and orbit that make this a compelling case. Part of the reason that this hypothesis wasn&#x27;t possible before is because the observational data to support these numbers was lacking. The amount of knowledge we&#x27;ve gained about the Kuiper Belt over the last…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.5166/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.EP