[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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