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GABA ghoul posted:1. The real reason is that the books were written two decades ago when our ability to detect exoplanets was pretty bad and the whole topic wasn't very publicized in pop science media. There is a later retconned in-universe reason revealed in the second book, but it's a major spoiler. I've read the books a while ago but I don't seem to remember the spoilers you talk about, can you clarify? EDIT: if it's against the rules of this thread to ask about the books, please ignore me, I don't want to get probated.
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uXs posted:Apparently yeah, if the bodies are too small they can be disregarded. Like if you have a planet and its small moon, it behaves (close enough) as just one body. Most of engineering is looking at a complex equation and removing 3/4 of it because it's so small it will have no discernable effect on the result.
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