Periodic Planar Three-Body Orbits / Ricky Reusser | Observable
This notebook collects periodic solutions of the planar three-body problem in which three bodies experience mutual gravitational attraction according to Newton's law of universal gravitation, Three-body orbits don't have a closed-form analytical solution and aren't in general periodic, but by reducing the dimensionality of the problem through symmetries and performing a lot of numerical searching, a number of authors have found and published large sets of initial conditions for periodic solutions. In this
