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Jan 30, 2019 at 0:12 comment added uhoh not as interesting (or likely?) as a torus, but related: Could you stably orbit around a square (cubic) body? Would the orbit destabilize automatically if not corrected by input?
Sep 17, 2018 at 20:08 comment added Anders Sandberg @PM2Ring - Thanks! I also have some more detail on the ball trajectories on my blog about this, aleph.se/andart2/physics/throwing-balls-on-torus-earth - it turns out one can view the trajectory as an electron in a combined electric and magnetic field, and decompose it into a helix plus a drift velocity. Granted, the effect is small for reasonable trajectories.
Sep 16, 2018 at 20:10 history edited Anders Sandberg CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sep 16, 2018 at 17:14 vote accept PharaohCola13
Sep 16, 2018 at 6:22 history answered Anders Sandberg CC BY-SA 4.0