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Why wouldn't a planet's orbit precess in a 2 body Newtonian universe?
If the whole universe was?were just the Sun and Mercury, in a Newtonian universe, what would its orbit look like? A circle or an ellipse? And why? I know the Sun is so much more massive, than Mercury, ...
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Virial ratio behaviour
I think I didn't understand something about virial theorem for an $N$-body system, for instance the behaviour of virial ratio $T/\Omega$, with $T$ kinetic energy and $\Omega$ gravitational potential ...
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Gravity on a right rectangular prism? [closed]
Let's assume there is a right rectangular prism floating about in space, what would the gravity be like across its 6 flat surfaces? What gravity would you experience if you set foot on the rectangular ...
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Astronomy Olympiad Gravitation Qn
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Approximately once in 5 years people on Earth can observe bright comets whose nuclei have radius about 1km. The orbits of such comets are close to parabolic. Assuming that these nuclei are ...
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