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To: js1138
K. F. Sundman did publish an analytical solution to the three-body problem in 1906. The European "rocket-scientists" tend to use his formulation for satellite computations where as their American counterparts solve the Newtonian formulas directly. (Both are numerical solutions; both methods are about equal in cost.)

There is no problem solving the three-body problem.
988 posted on 02/26/2003 7:05:22 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
There is no problem solving the three-body problem.

Are you saying that you can determine the absolute stability of any three body system? I will hang my head in shame. I thought it was impossible.

989 posted on 02/26/2003 7:20:38 AM PST by js1138
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