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Numerical Programming using ODEINT takes more than 17 minutes
My first recommendation is to drastically increase the step size. Both odeint and solve_ivp use adaptive integrators. Keep in ...
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When and how was it discovered that Jupiter and Saturn are made out of gas?
According the answers to this question:
https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/14083/when-was-it-realized-that-the-giant-planets-do-not-have-solid-surfaces
Astronomers didn't discover that the giant ...
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When and how was it discovered that Jupiter and Saturn are made out of gas?
I'm unsure of the "history of science" aspect of this, but an actual deduction that these are gas giants would require Kepler's laws and Newton's law of gravity combined with a modest ...
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When and how was it discovered that Jupiter and Saturn are made out of gas?
By 1690, Giovanni Cassini was able to estimate the rotation period of the planet and noticed that the atmosphere of Jupiter undergoes differential rotation which confirmed that Jupiter was made of gas ...
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Can a tidally locked planet sustain a magnetic field
We have examples of tidally locked objects in our own Solar System.
Ganymede is not a planet orbiting a star, but a tidally locked moon orbiting the giant planet Jupiter. Galileo discovered the ...
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Can a tidally locked planet sustain a magnetic field
tl;dr: It should be possible for tidally locked planets to have magnetic fields under certain condiitions which are not all known at the moment.
Tidally locked planets and moons rotate.
Their ...
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What caused the “rake marks” in moon photos?
Definitely not rake marks.
From what I can tell they may have been caused by some kind of impact, which could have been ancient or recent. How do I know? Well, since there is no weather on the moon, ...
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