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Re:Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra d... by pavel_lishin on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:29AM (#18005727)
Why would being 8 minutes out of date result in an unstable orbit?
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Re:Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra d... by conistonwater on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:37AM (#18006901)
Why wouldn't it? It's not obvious to me one way or the other: it's a small perturbation, over billions of years, of the same period as the period of the orbit itself. It's plausible that it might be unstable.
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