I have been working on a project (my Ph.D dissertation, hopefully) that shows that the planets in our own solar system occupy specific locations in the Three Body Problem; i.e. stable Lagrange type points. I found this as a "system wave" in a paper called "The Inverse Problem of Celestial Mechanics," and later proved this waveform in an informal paper on "The NN Body Problem." I also have a mathematical proof from an equation of the regularized Three Body Problem. All these papers are on my web site at http://www.inviticus.com There is also a fun computer program modeling the Earth to Mars trajectory (it has nice graphs), used to prove one part of the theory. One interesting conclusion of this body of work is that our own solar system behaves as three bodies on a macroscopic scale - ie the sun, the inner planets, and the outer planets. I show these nine bodies satisfy the Three Body Problem, in other words. One application is that some of the huge planets sighted around distant stars might actually be a collection of several smaller planets. My theory might help to find these smaller planets. Bill Clark Univ. of Texas Austin, TX ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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