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Potential Energy tends to infinity on the N-Body Problem
I need help to solve this problem related with the N-Body problem, i dont understand quite well what I need to define or to express in order to solve it.
We assume a particular solution to the N-Body ...
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Gravitation in a space that is topologically toroidal
In my scant spare time I'm building an Asteroids game. You know - a little ship equipped with a pea shooter and a bunch of asteroids floating around everywhere waiting to be to blown up. But, I wanted ...
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the collision of Phobos
Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. Both are irregular and are believed to have been captured from the nearby asteroid belt.
Phobos always shows the same face to Mars because of tidal forces ...
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Calculation of a Gravity Resonance Keyhole
Can anyone describe the mathematics behind the calculation of a resonance keyhole (for a two-body model)? It seems like the size and position of the keyhole should be a function only of mass and ...
