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Old 04-03-2012, 05:49 PM   #27
Anthony
 
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Default Re: [Space] Making a solar system with 3 (semi-) habitable planets?

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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh View Post
Aren't exclusion zones roughly comparable to to Orbit×1.4 and Orbit/1.4? (I.e. vaguely less, such that at a ratio of 1.4 is more-or-less safe from the other orbital body's gravity.) I thought those numbers come from laws of astrophysics, not made up in G:Space. Are they real-life or not?
They are empirically observed ratios, and scale in some way with the mass of the planet, since Ceres fails to clear its orbit.
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