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- From: mrtim@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (t.ihde)
- Subject: Re: averting doom
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.213057.5188@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: UNIX System Labs
- References: <1992Dec30.165411.25838@cs.ucf.edu> <1992Dec30.194139.27331@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:30:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.194139.27331@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
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- >It was Sky and Telescope Feb '93 ppp 13-14.
- >I remembered wrong. A one millimeter perturbation of Mars' orbit
- >eventually caused a 500,000 kilometer difference in the position of
- >Pluto after 100 million years.
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- >Gerald Sussman and Jack Wisdom used the Supercomputer Toolkit at MIT
- >to simulate the solar system.
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- Did this simulation consider the positions of nearby stars? Eventually
- these would have an effect also. I'm wondering how this effect compares
- with this change in position of Mars.
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- tim
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- Tim J. Ihde | UNIX(R) System Laboratories
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