Reply to post: Re: Orbital stability

Astroboffins may have found the first exomoon lurking beyond the Solar System

Wellyboot Silver badge

Re: Orbital stability

Minor moons (moon-1? ) swapping orbits between bigger moons & host planet?

I don't know how Newtonian physics can produce a repeating double slingshot for this, it would seem to require a really tight set of numbers for planetary mass, major moon orbital distance & mass, minor moon orbital velocity and all orbital planes being aligned precisely.

If it can be simulated then it will be happening somewhere out there. (Pity the poor Galileo living there trying to figure out WTF is happening in the sky)

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