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Are the planets orbits stable

Updated: 12/22/2022
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That kind of depends on what, exactly, you mean by "stable." They influence each other, and this means that they are never quite precisely the same.

However, we know that they're not going to crash into each other or go wandering off into space, so they're certainly "stable" in that sense.

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