Two-Body-Problem with Changing Mass

Flor · Jan 17, 2018

Hi,

I would like to ask you what happens when you change (gradually) a mass of one body in a classical two-body-problem.

May it lead to such results?

Many thanks.

Flor

mfb · Jan 18, 2018

It depends on how you change the mass. The mass cannot suddenly disappear, what happens with it?

The Sun has a constant mass stream away from it, for example, as result the orbits of the planets get slightly larger.

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