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Lagrange points (again... hard info this time)
Posted By: Butcher <cbutcher@atlas.otago.ac.nz>	Date: 12/28/99 10:50 p.m.
In Response To: But.. wait. (Xzzy) > But I digress. Cool applet man.. is defintly fun to watch the L4 > entity fly all over the place. ;) But I dunno if it's accurate. It's using some kind of discrete-timestep code that seems to be coupled to the display update - you get different results every time you run it. Not terribly accurate... but then again the three-body problem is the classic example of a chaotic system. Did you read this paper about the stability of Lagrange points (linked off the page you gave) ? http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~njc/lagrange.ps.gz Very interesting - basically the coriolis force is what keeps halo orbits about L4 and L5 stable. I guess Bungie's cosmology is a little off this time... unless they are planning on parking the Halo at L4 or L5! - Butcher

Message Index

Halo orbit simulation	Mike	12/27/99 11:44 p.m.
Re: Halo orbit simulation	Wirehead	12/28/99 1:22 a.m.
Re: Halo orbit simulation	Jägermeister	12/28/99 2:28 a.m.
Re: Halo orbit simulation	Someguy	12/28/99 2:42 a.m.
Chokezilla	Bachus	12/28/99 2:58 a.m.
Re: Chokezilla	Mike	12/28/99 10:37 a.m.
Re: Chokezilla	Jagu	12/28/99 6:10 p.m.
Re: Chokezilla	Gandalf	12/28/99 2:35 p.m.
Re: Halo orbit simulation	Jagu	12/28/99 1:50 a.m.
Re: Halo orbit simulation	Jagu	12/28/99 1:51 a.m.
Re: Halo orbit simulation	Frankenstein	12/28/99 10:55 a.m.
Re: Halo orbit simulation	Someguy	12/28/99 1:42 p.m.
Asprin!	Forensic	12/28/99 3:43 p.m.
Re: Asprin!	John Woods	12/28/99 9:29 p.m.
Re: Halo orbit simulation	Bounty	12/28/99 7:25 p.m.
Simulation/plot speculation	Forensic	12/29/99 7:42 a.m.
Additional Speculation	Desio	12/29/99 8:18 a.m.
Oh I almost forgot	Desio	12/29/99 8:26 a.m.
Re: Oh I almost forgot	Someguy	12/29/99 3:18 p.m.
Re: Oh I almost forgot	Desio	12/29/99 7:12 p.m.
But.. wait.	Xzzy	12/28/99 10:14 p.m.
Uh, wait more. :)	Xzzy	12/28/99 10:20 p.m.
Oops, my bad.	Xzzy	12/29/99 6:41 p.m.
Lagrange points (again... hard info this time)	Butcher	12/28/99 10:50 p.m.
Re: Lagrange points (again... hard info this time)	Desio	12/29/99 7:26 a.m.
Halo crashing into Threshold	Butcher	12/29/99 2:22 p.m.