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Christophorus Willibaldus Gluck

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Christophorus Willibaldus Gluck, a Iosepho Sifrède Duplessis pictus (1775). Museum Historiae Artis ( Kunsthistorisches Museum ) Vindobonae. Christophorus Willibaldus Gluck (Erasbach in vico, 2 Iulii 1714—Vindobonae, 15 Novembris 1787) fuit compositor Germanicus, praecipue musicae operaticae. Corpus est in Mediis Sepulcris Vindobonae humatum. Vita | Ab anno 1736 usque ad annum 1741, Gluck fuit Ioannis Baptistae Sammartini discipulus. Bibliographia | Brown, Bruce Alan. 1991. Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna. Oxoniae: Clarendon Press. Einstein, Alfredus. 1952. Gluck: Sein Leben seine Werke. Turici: Liz-Ausgabe, Orig. Pan-Verlag. Etiam E-Book: www.musikwissenschaft.tu-berlin.de/wi. Nexus externi | Exempla musicae: aria "Che Faro Senza Euridice" ex Orfeo ed Euridice opera (anno 1762) Situs Societatis Internationalis Gluck, apud www.gluck-gesellschaft.org Situs urbis natalis, apud www.berching.de .mw-parser-output .stipula{padding:3px...

How difficult would it be to turn the Asteroid Belt into a single body? What's the best method?

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1 $begingroup$ The Emperor (may he live forever) plans to visit the Solar System on a rare royal visit in ten years' time. The Bureau for Interplanetary Tidying have decided that the Asteroid Belt is an eyesore that shouldn't sully the eyes of His Mightiness and needs to be cleaned up. The obvious way to do this is to form them into a single body. Clearly, moving every single asteroid individually would be incredibly energy expensive. Is there a way to start a domino type reaction so that the asteroids assemble themselves over a period of 10 years or so? Here is what I have in mind when I talk about a domino reaction. https://youtu.be/5JCm5FY-dEY?t=32 science-based orbital-mechanics solar-system asteroids ...