[TML] The proper year length of a super jovian
Anthony Jackson
ajackson at iii.com
Mon Feb 4 11:21:12 MST 2008
Knapp wrote:
> My question for all you space experts is what is meant by
> "Significant" here?
Massive enough that you care about the error margin. For typical gaming
purposes, where you've only got 1-2 significant figures, a factor of ten
or so will do the job.
Of course, this assumes a two body system. If there are three or more
massive bodies in the system, the problem gets much nastier.
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