In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 21 Dec 2013 08:28:54 -0800: Hi, [snip] >This sounds a little like a rogue wave phenomenon [1]; Jones mentioned >something similar sometime back [2]. I'm personally guessing the planets >in the simulation are being ejected because of a gradual floating point >error (I think James Bowery alluded to this) or just insufficiently >sophisticated handling of the startup of the system. >
Things do occasionally get ejected from the Oort cloud. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
