Analytic methods for restricted 3-body problems.  Poincare showed there can be no analytic solution for the general case.

 Section from Cornell physics course on (sun,earth,jupiter) system
 Stable ensembles (including solar system simulators)
 Relation to chaos
 Simulation of matter transfer in a binary star system (nice animation)
Chenciner et al, Simple Choreographic Motions of N Bodies: A preliminary study

Details on stable three-body system with figure eight trajectory:

   Chenciner and Montgomery  (Montgomery home page including initial conditions)



27 June 2001