# gst: more on the three-body problem (695 families of collisionless orbits)

<< The famous three-body problem can be traced back to Isaac Newton in the 1680s >>

In a recent paper AA << numerically obtain 695 families of Newtonian periodic planar collisionless orbits of three-body system >>

Li, X. & Liao, S. More than six hundred new families of Newtonian periodic planar collisionless three-body orbits. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. (2017) 60: 129511. doi: 10.1007/s11433-017-9078-5

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11433-017-9078-5

the movies:

http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body-unequal-mass-movies.htm

http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body-unequal-mass.htm

http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm

Scientists discover more than 600 new periodic orbits of the famous three-body problem. Oct 12, 2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-10-scientists-periodic-orbits-famous-three-body.html