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Hamish Cruickshank
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Okay, I am doing grade 12 physics in australia and I was wondering about systems of planets interacting with each others gravity and whether this could cause chaos with orbits.
If all the other planets in out solar system effect one another, does there ever end up a point where the clockwork orbits will go chaotic? I don't know a lot about chaos, but there must become a point with Newtons gravitational laws and Keplars laws where it all goes pear-shaped and one of the planets orbits gets all messed up.
Could you predict when this would happen?
Youll have to excuse my punctuation as I am using a mac and the damn apostrophe won't work... grrr
If all the other planets in out solar system effect one another, does there ever end up a point where the clockwork orbits will go chaotic? I don't know a lot about chaos, but there must become a point with Newtons gravitational laws and Keplars laws where it all goes pear-shaped and one of the planets orbits gets all messed up.
Could you predict when this would happen?
Youll have to excuse my punctuation as I am using a mac and the damn apostrophe won't work... grrr