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Given 3- bodies of non-negleble mass, are there stable configurations or not.
for example,
Will a planet (with non-zero mass) orbiting 1000 au away from two stars 0.1 au apart eventually leave the system if you give it 10^9999999... years; or is the system stable for a truly infinete time?
assume: Newtonian physics with point masses. (no gravitational waves no time dialation, etc.)
Note: this is a more of a mathmatical question than physical.
If no stable system exists, is there any way to estimate the time it will take for the system to destabalize.
for example,
Will a planet (with non-zero mass) orbiting 1000 au away from two stars 0.1 au apart eventually leave the system if you give it 10^9999999... years; or is the system stable for a truly infinete time?
assume: Newtonian physics with point masses. (no gravitational waves no time dialation, etc.)
Note: this is a more of a mathmatical question than physical.
If no stable system exists, is there any way to estimate the time it will take for the system to destabalize.