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  Re: Gravity fun! (510 kbbu)  
From: Bill DeWitt
Date: 5 Dec 2001 12:26:58
Message: <3c0e58e2$1@news.povray.org>
"Lutz-Peter Hooge" <lpv### [at] gmxde> wrote :
>
> Then you have a problem. They should't be able to do this (unless they
> have a high initial speed) because of energy-conservation.

    Um... I am probably the last person to challenge this, but "evaporation"
of an orbital system is pretty common. Energy is conserved, as it is taken
from other objects. Some things slow down and other things speed up.


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