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From: Data
Date: 5 Dec 2001 11:55:21
Message: <3c0e5179@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote in message
news:3c0e39ec@news.povray.org...
> "Bill DeWitt" wrote:
> >     What finally happens? Do they all impact a planet?
>
> Of course I haven't tried it, but I think most (maybe all) will impact a
> planet but some might leave the system (that happened in some other
tests).
>
From what I remember, there's no dfinate way to predict particle (planet)
motion around two larger bodies. The orbits of planets around a binary
couple get very chaotic, very quickly. Now where'd I see that article?


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