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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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?
Right.. I’m going to post a chaotic one soon .. but I just used Mathematica -> Manipulate to you with it
