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> But aren't the vast majority of possible orbits unstable?

No. Ignoring perturbations from other planets, planetary orbits are stable ellipses with the sun at one focus.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler's_laws_of_planetary_mo...




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