The fun thing to know the name of here is 'Lyapunov time', the rough time scale on which dynamical systems become unpredictable. It's unfortunately ~5M years for Mercury. But there's a moon we can't predict the behavior of more than a month in advancehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(moon)#Rotation …
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It's named after the Russian mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, who some days would roll in to the Instutute well after noon, on other days not show up at all, and then suddenly pull a week of all-nighters.pic.twitter.com/itEfDksIf7
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astrology troll = "astroll"
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What if Mercury, but plunges into the sun :D
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