Timeline for Mercury's orbit
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 12:32 | history | edited | Waffle's Crazy Peanut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2013 at 16:53 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @NicholasPipitone Either you are inserting extra planets which are too close and too heavy for stability or your integrator is buggy somehow (even if written correctly if may be an algorithm that does not handle n-body problems well). You would have to take that to SciComp.SE. | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 16:53 | comment | added | Philip Gibbs - inactive | Either your simulator is not very good or the orbit parameters you are putting in are not correct. Stability of orbits is an interesting question in general, but different from this one. You may want to ask it separately. | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 16:49 | comment | added | Nicholas Pipitone | What keeps it in it's stable orbit then? If I open a simulator and plop mercury in, it stays in a simple elliptical. If I put another planet in then Mercury flails wildly in some obscure ever-changing orbit before either crashing into the sun or flying out into space. | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 16:45 | history | answered | Philip Gibbs - inactive | CC BY-SA 3.0 |