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We Just Got 12,000 New Solutions to The Infamous Three-Body Problem
Summary by Ground News
Newton's laws of motion triggered a centuries-long search for solutions to the three-body problem. A solution would allow astronomers to plot the predicted motions of these objects given their initial positions and velocities. Ivan Hristov of Sofia University in Bulgaria and colleagues have reported 12,409 orbital patterns for three- body systems that work within Newton's laws.