If the initial conditions for a 3-body system aren't 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 right the orbiting planet will undergo chaotic motionpic.twitter.com/SqFHGSdaDD
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These wacky looking planetary orbits arise when you start considering the gravitational force between n>2 planets • No closed form solution is known for n>2, and is known as the n-body problempic.twitter.com/581Canf5OP
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May be add some music to go with these?
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Love it. How did you find an initial position/momentum for the blue body that lead to such interesting/nearly repeating orbits? Subjective and vague question, but do most initial conditions lead to interesting dynamics given the relative masses of the three bodies here?
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Right.. I’m going to post a chaotic one soon .. but I just used Mathematica -> Manipulate to you with it
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good question.. the simulation is done in the rotating frame of CM of the two yellow ones
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Could there be planets with funky orbits like this in a real binary star system or would they decay?
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these orbits could really exist .. they are just mostly extremely unstable
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yea there was some precision mishaps .. but the second animation i think i fixed them
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