# orbits *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Jan 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Grant Peacock *09 Jan 2002, 19:19* > --- Andy Robertson wrote: > Green is obviously in a parallel orbit to Blue, occasionally overtaking it > in its orbit. Yes, that's my understanding. I think it's clear that since the two planets tug on each other so hard when they get close together, this is an unstable arrangement. It can't stay this way for long, and it can't have been this way for long. Maybe it has only been this way since the White Fountain came cruising in and disrupted what was a two planet system. Peacock ---