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The 3-body problem never ceases to amaze me. I've had so much fun playing with choreographies over the last few years, and detecting chaos. Despite the N-body p
by kartikkumar 12y ago
The 3-body problem never ceases to amaze me. I've had so much fun playing with choreographies over the last few years, and detecting chaos. Despite the N-body problem being age-old, there's still so much cutting edge work being done on figuring out where various patterns and (sub)structures come from. The Kepler dataset [1] has provided a brilliant starting point to probe a lot of seemingly insane planet configurations.
One of the most fascinating restricted problems I've worked on is the Sitnikov problem [2].
[1] http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/KeplerMission.html http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/KeplerMission....
[2] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sitnikov_problem http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sitnikov_problem