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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Forgive my ignorance, but how come we don’t see this crazy orbits all the time then? In our solar system? There’s no place in the universe where you can just isolate two bodies. Everything is an n-body problem. So why don’t we see these more often?
(1) they're unstable and (2) the planets are too far apart currently
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Ahhh. What’s the approximate distance range then for these chaotic orbits, if you know?
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guessing it depends on their mass too
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The orbit depends on mass and distance, right? Again, I did not get the answer to
@johnnygreavu question; why we don't see this chaotic orbits in the solar system, even with astroids? Do "unstable" orbits decay?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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