(urth) grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle

[Jack Smith]

Thanks for the link to horseshoe orbits!  This might work.


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> On 2/8/2011 9:36 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
>> I forgot about that.
>> But one or both could have an elliptical orbit.
>> Again, I don't know whether precession would make this unrealistic or
>> not. And 35000 leagues is incredibly, dangerously close for two
>> Earth-sized planets.
>> But in terms of basic mechanics, a series of conjunctions should be
>> possible (for story purposes, I think it would probably be sufficient if
>> the series lasted a few centuries).
>>
>
> They could be paired in a horseshoe orbit:
>
> http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=210
>
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-- 
Best wishes,
Jack
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