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Six-planet system discovered that moves in perfect mathematical harmony (www.earth.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile our solar system is a mess. Rings and tilts and giant moons and all. But Jupiter has that sort of stable mathematically pleasing balance as well, so I’ve always assumed this is the “ideal” orbital state; all the planets have reached stable equilibrium and nothing has interfered. It just makes sense that that’s how things default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I learned recently that Neptune and Pluto have orbital resonance, with a 2:3 ratio of orbital periods.