- An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem (threebodyorbits.com)
Every orbit has a place on this map. Orbits that look alike sit next to each other; the families form islands, and each family has its own page. Fly around: far out the map is a constellation, close up each orbit runs live. Scroll to zoom, drag to move, click an orbit to open it. With the map focused, the arrow keys walk from orbit to orbit and Enter opens one.
- Three-body problem (Wikipedia)
In physics, specifically classical mechanics, the three-body problem is to take the initial positions and velocities (or momenta) of three point masses orbiting each other in space and then to calculate their subsequent trajectories using Newton’s laws of motion and Newton’s law of universal gravitation.
