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In Newtonian gravity you need at least three bodies to arrange an ejection: two of them start orbiting more tightly, to counterbalance the third one flying out
by abecedarius 10y ago
In Newtonian gravity you need at least three bodies to arrange an ejection: two of them start orbiting more tightly, to counterbalance the third one flying out to infinity. (IIRC this happens a lot in globular clusters, and simulations like yours.) With just two bodies you get only Newton's solutions, the conic sections.