Re:Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body ...
by ekianjo on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:50AM
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arent eclipses three body problems?
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Re:Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body ...
by nwatson on Saturday August 14, 2021 @06:08AM
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For all practical purposes eclipses are two two-body problems ... Sun vs Earth-Moon pair, and Earth vs Moon. The scale of the Sun is so vastly larger and distances so great from sun to earth there's no need to do 3-body.
If the three had roughly the same mass would be different story.