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Yes. Just imagine the Binary stars being very close compared to the distance to the habitable world. E.g. two sun-like stars in sun-mercury distance, and an ear
by thyristan 2y ago
Yes. Just imagine the Binary stars being very close compared to the distance to the habitable world. E.g. two sun-like stars in sun-mercury distance, and an earth-like planet somewhere between mars and jupiter.
Three-body problems can be chaotic and can be ugly. But in the simplest case you can make them look like two-body problems and things will be just fine.
- mr_toad 2y agoMost n-body systems are fairly stable just because of selection bias. The unstable systems didn’t last.
- chithanh 2y agoMore precisely, the unstable parts of the systems were ejected, leaving only the (relatively) stable parts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_gap
- praptak 2y agoI think it only means they don't crash nor escape, not stable as the opposite of chaotic.