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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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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What's going on at the 0:15 mark in the gif? I don't see how an attractive potential toward the two yellow bodies could force the particle to the left (unless this is in a rotating reference frame with respect to the two yellow bodies?)
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nice observation .. indeed it is is the rotating frame of the yellow bodies
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Nice. Makes me want to pick up the Three Body Problem again
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I feel for the alien who has to design the calendar
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If you are familiar with Joan Miró, then..z probably you will link his 23 paintings on constellation motif with this..
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wait, so is this orbit with consideration of the other two bodies being stationary w.r.t each other ?
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Are they of equal mass in this example? If so you should show off the figure eight
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I've seen trajectory plot of the co orbital object Cruithne. Kind of a horse shoe pattern. What frame of reference is that, do you know?
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This is also a good visualisation of a chaotic system filling it's phase space
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