Comments on: Dance Of The Planets https://briankoberlein.com/2016/01/23/dance-of-the-planets/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: tony https://briankoberlein.com/2016/01/23/dance-of-the-planets/#comment-3550 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:37:13 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5676#comment-3550 The planets themselves should be orbiting much faster in that animation. The pulsations in the orbits would happen over many thousands of orbits, not several times per orbit.

But the animation does do a good job demonstrating how potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) keep getting replenished. Asteroids whose orbits are elliptical, and cross the orbits of the planets have their orbits dance around much like the ones in the Kerbal Sim.

Here’s my own effort using Gravity Simulator to show how the orbits of several PHAs change over thousands of years.

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