'Chaotic Earths': Some habitable exoplanets could experience wildly unpredictable climates

'Chaotic Earths': Some habitable exoplanets could experience wildly unpredictable climates

03/13/2015 05:35 PM EDT

New research from an NSF-funded researcher and others describes possible planetary systems where a gravitational nudge from one planet with just the right orbital configuration and tilt could have a mild to devastating effect on the orbit and climate of another, possibly habitable world.

Full story at http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/03/11/chaotic-earths-some-habitable-exoplanets-could-experience-wildly-unpredictable-climates/

Source
University of Washington

This is an NSF News From the Field item.