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		moi2388 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body p... I don’t understand. How would energy not be conserved if one flew away? It’s not in the system, but it’s still out there?

lutusp 5 months ago [–]

I'm just saying that, because of energy conservation, an escaping member would need to permanently carry away more than 1/3 of the system energy (for equal-mass satellites). This is possible but unlikely.

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