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| Dec 19, 2019 at 1:12 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2019 at 22:55 | history | edited | TimWescott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2019 at 22:27 | answer | added | stafusa | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 10, 2019 at 20:53 | comment | added | Keith McClary | This 2018 paper gives a history in the Introduction. In their Stability section it is not clear to me whether the stability proofs are only for systems constrained to a plane. | |
| Dec 9, 2019 at 16:06 | comment | added | TimWescott | @KeithMcClary Good point -- and one that I knew, if I'd thought of it. So I suppose I'm asking if there are starting conditions that can be stable. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | Keith McClary | I think Chaos is usually defined as a property of a system, not a particular trajectory. So you could have a Chaotic system which has some periodic orbits, and these can be stable or unstable under small perturbations. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 17:39 | comment | added | G. Smith | There are more than 2000 exact solutions currently known. Your link even has an animation of an obviously non-chaotic figure-eight solution. So I am confused about what you are asking. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 17:39 | comment | added | The Photon | I'm not an orbital mechanic, but as I understand it the Lagrange points give examples of stable solutions to (particular conditions for) the 3-body problem. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 17:38 | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | More on the 3-body problem. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 17:37 | comment | added | Dancrumb | The Wikipedia link you provided lists stable solutions to the three-body problem. Does you question go beyond that? | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 17:34 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2019 at 17:34 | comment | added | G. Smith | In it the author makes the argument "the two body problem has an exact solution, so all Newtonian mechanics are easy". I do not find any such quote in the article. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 17:33 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2019 at 17:28 | history | asked | TimWescott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |