Okay cool.

Here's a question related to my ability to detect a "failed model".

Take a "sun".
Take any mass and throw it in any direction not exactly at its center at any
velocity.

If the mass doesn't sink into the sun,  will it:

i)  undertake an "orbit"  "right there" in the sense that it will undertake
an elliptical orbit which intersects that point of release,
OR
ii) will a particle "destined" for a stable orbit sometimes "drift" out
towards the radius of its stable orbit.

I'm ultimately trying to interpret my :
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/<3A65E429.18F2DC62@my-dejanews.com>/?ttop=184334&toff=4400

If I had  been much, much more patient, might some of those orbits which
looked like they were decaying be just wandering off to something "close
enough" to their own stable orbit?





> > So I'm falling back to three ideas:
> > 1) it is in fact impossible
>
> Exact solutions are impossible. "Close enough" solutions are quite
> possible.
>
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