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New family of solutions to an age-old problem
So some physicists have come up with a new family of solutions for the three-body problem. For those not aware of this problem, it basically is this: Isaac Newton worked out the math to calculate the orbits for any two bodies. However, calculating the orbits of three bodies is fiendishly difficult. In the last few hundred years only three families of solutions were found. The most well-known of these are the Lagrange-Euler family. Most solutions for three bodies in orbit around one another are one-offs but the holy grail is a generalized solution for any three bodies.
Now some physicists have found 13 new families of solutions to the problem.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2853631.html
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