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One of my simulation software projects for a class last century was to try and recreate the slight “wobble” stars have from suspected orbiting planet pulling on them.

The simulation proved they could but it took a fairly large planet in a closish orbit.

Planet finding techniques have improved considerably.

One problem I remember having was Setting the initial state so the planets didn’t just slide off my coordinate system with a constant velocity.




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