Thanks Rob (from another Rob). Your explanation was very concise and clear. Especially having just read Ron's reply. As I told Ron, I'm going to have to spend some time daydreaming about it to get it comfortable in my head but I at least understand the physics now. There was me thinking it may have something to do with general relativity. I always doubted this because of the low masses and velocites involved. As for Isaac Newton, I still think he'd be grumpy about it all. His equations are only really much good in a 2 body situation. As I understand it, 3 bodies are a nightmare and ultimately unpredictable, though I don't know why, exactly.
Once again, wonderful answers to my questions. I can go to bed now, content that I am a little smarter than when I woke up. Rob McC ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
