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The idealized problem of a planet orbiting around the Sun has an exact solution which — as we saw in Chapter 3 — is fairly easy to obtain. But in real life, the orbital motion of planets is a lot more complicated because each planet is influenced by the gravitational force of all other bodies in the solar system.
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Padmanabhan, T. (2015). Lagrange and his Points. In: Sleeping Beauties in Theoretical Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 895. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13443-7_6
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