My Pioneer anomaly wacko theory

[5hot6un]

Could it be that the spin of a large body like a planet or star causes a "compression" of space-time perpendicular to the equator of the spinning body? If so, it would mean that there is a stronger gravitational effect in the region perpendicular to the equator of spinning massive objects. Would this not explain why discs form along the equator of large planets, stars, and galaxies? Perhaps explaining the Pioneer anomaly, the fly-by anomaly, rings around gas giant planets, the orbital plane of the planets, and the flat shape of spiral galaxies.

 

[theridane]

Rings, discs and what not form in the plane of the equator because, like the planet they orbit, they originated from the same spinning cloud of cosmic garbage. Part of the spinning cloud formed a planet, part remained in orbit. Over a bunch of eternities interactions in the orbiting cloud flattened it and formed something like this. So, a planetary ring is in a sense a would-be part of the equator. The same goes for planets around a star's equator and galaxies in line with their black hole's/galactic center's equator.

Sure, there's frame dragging and relativistic mass gain at the equator (because it's the fastest part of a spinning body), but I doubt the effects having any role what so ever.