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		vacri on July 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Simulated Stable Planetary System with 416 Plane... I don't understand why the outer orbits are limited to the same number of planets as the inner ones. What's the story there?

rbanffy on July 14, 2017 [–]

Didn't do the math myself, but I guess it's the resonance. You want the inner planet's gravity to cancel the outer one's.

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