[ExI] fun and games

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Mar 12 20:01:43 UTC 2010


On 3/12/2010 1:30 PM, Keith Henson wrote:

> Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1003.2160: Searching for Stars Closely Encountering
> with the Solar System

I loved this line:

"To construct the stellar orbits relative to the solar orbit, we have 
used the epicyclic approximation."

Ptolemy lives!

I suppose it doesn't *really* mean that they used epicycles in that 
sense... :)

Damien Broderick



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