Timeline for What would the shape of orbits of planets be if hypothetically the gravitational force be proportional to the inverse of cube of distance from Sun?
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| Dec 13, 2019 at 15:04 | history | edited | Kirtpole | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2019 at 15:03 | comment | added | Kirtpole | Whoops, you're right. Kepler's third law only applies to elliptical orbits anyways. | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 15:01 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | Kepler's Third Law does not hold for any potentials other than $V \propto 1/r$, at least not in the form $T^2 \propto r^3$. | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 14:56 | history | answered | Kirtpole | CC BY-SA 4.0 |