Meanwhile our solar system is a mess. Rings and tilts and giant moons and all. But Jupiter has that sort of stable mathematically pleasing balance as well, so I’ve always assumed this is the “ideal” orbital state; all the planets have reached stable equilibrium and nothing has interfered. It just makes sense that that’s how things default.
Meanwhile our solar system is a mess. Rings and tilts and giant moons and all. But Jupiter has that sort of stable mathematically pleasing balance as well, so I’ve always assumed this is the “ideal” orbital state; all the planets have reached stable equilibrium and nothing has interfered. It just makes sense that that’s how things default.
I learned recently that Neptune and Pluto have orbital resonance, with a 2:3 ratio of orbital periods.