Timeline for How would the rotational and orbital mechanics differ on a torus-shaped planet as compared to a spherical planet?
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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 |