[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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