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In article <1992Dec30.213649.28398@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
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>From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
>Subject: Re: averting doom
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>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:41:39 GMT
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>In article <1992Dec30.165411.25838@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas  
>Clarke) writes:
>> In article <JMC.92Dec29211051@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John  
>> McCarthy) writes:
>> > By the way, it seems to me that if the above idea is sound, it settles
>> > the question of the stability of the solar system - in the negative.
>> ... In the most recent Sci Am or Sky and Telescope 
>
>It was Sky and Telescope Feb '93 ppp 13-14.
>I remembered wrong.  A one millimeter perturbation of Mars' orbit
>eventually caused a 500,000 kilometer difference in the position of
>Pluto after 100 million years.
>
>Gerald Sussman and Jack Wisdom used the Supercomputer Toolkit at MIT
>to simulate the solar system.

McCarthy has been discussing the tame-asteroid proposal with Sussman
et al.

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