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		waps on July 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is the Solar System Stable? (2011) TLDR: it isn't. For a real explanation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem It's a typical chaotic system. Over the short term everything looks and behaves VERY stable, but every 10 million years or so things align juuuuust right and some major shift suddenly happens.

jpmattia on July 26, 2014 | [–]

> but every 10 million years or so things align juuuuust right and some major shift suddenly happens.

I haven't thought deeply, but a quick check of the Sun-Moon-Earth system seems to disagree with this.

rwmj on July 26, 2014 | [–]

Actually you're wrong and should probably read the article.

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