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To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv

I did not realize mercury had such an eccentric orbit. So, how far into the future can we predict 6 body gravitational problems?


8 posted on 05/12/2018 8:31:02 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: Robert A Cook PE

The general n-body problem has no closed-form solution, and the farther out you go with a numerical approximation, the harder it gets.

I don’t know how far is used in practice.


12 posted on 05/12/2018 8:53:08 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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