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Re: can a moon sustain life in a solar system?

Re: can a moon sustain life in a solar system?  
Gene Ward Smith
From:Gene Ward Smith
Subject:Re: can a moon sustain life in a solar system?
Date:22 Jan 2005 12:00:10 -0800

Wayne Throop wrote:

> So the right comparison is the delta-v for transfer orbits.

Speaking of delta-v, another interesting scenario would be an earthlike
planet at the Lagrange point of a heavy inner-system planet.

I'm still curious about this question: given a star of the mass of the
Sun, a planet of N^3 lunar masses orbiting at a distance of N times the
lunar distance from an earth-mass planet in reasonably circular orbits,
what can be said about the long-term stablility of the resulting 3-body
system?
   

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