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It's still unknown whether or not these orbits are stable. It seems probable that they're unstable, in which case you would never expect to find them in the un
by splat 13y ago
It's still unknown whether or not these orbits are stable. It seems probable that they're unstable, in which case you would never expect to find them in the universe.
- leephillips 13y agoThey're probably all unstable except for the figure-8. Numerical experiments suggest that there should be somewhere from one to 100 figure-8 systems in the observable universe: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/N-body_choreographies http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/N-body_choreographies
- lholden 13y agoAlso worth noting that the mass of each star involved in a figure-8 would have to be pretty much identical.
- leephillips 13y agoAll these solutions are for bodies of equal mass.