Thanks for that link. Minovitch seems to still live in LA. He also mentions his solution as addressing the three-body problem, so maybe that's where the write

Thanks for that link. Minovitch seems to still live in LA. He also mentions his solution as addressing the three-body problem, so maybe that's where the writer of the linked article got misled on that point. Too bad the writer of TFA didn't check this out with an independent expert. The group at JPL that Minovitch mentions is still intact (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/ http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/). They provide the highest-quality ephemeris available anywhere (AFAIK) to all NASA missions.