Quote from Bob on 11/02/15 at 23:04:29:frankuitaalst, do your co-orbital planets start out as that? We have just a lot of dust which needs to form into a planet. So does it do that, then migrate; with several others into the co-orbital configuration?
I've never been a great fan of the idea of some co-orbital, the size of Mars, forming, then being deflected by Venus and Mercury into hitting a proto-Earth. Too much of a good thing for NASA's graphic designers I fear. I actually prefer Darwin's theory. A proto-Earth, a gas giant the size of Jupiter, throws out Mars as it condenses, and needs to dump angular momentum.
In the simulation above I made I just wanted to examine the stability of coorbitals . They seem to be stable in SMA , ie. once being created they seem to stay where they are . So , yes , I originally put them all at 60° in one orbit and let them evolve over time.
The sim doesn't take into account in any way accretion of dust or whatever .
I could have done this with 6 Jupiter sized planets also at Jupiters distance to the sun. I guess the result might be the same except for the time scale.
At Jupiters distance to the sun the coorbitals might evolve slower .
Edit : IIRC : I somewhere read that there is a maximum of coorbital bodies which holds the system stable . Fi. if the mass concentration gets to high the system experiences the influence of Mutual potential energy which results in instability . The above simulation is well under this limit .