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In Chap. 7, we have looked at two point masses that were moving under their mutual gravitational influence. Formally speaking we were dealing with two bodies each with six degrees of freedom (three position vector components and three velocity vector components).
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Walter, U. (2018). Three-Body Problem. In: Astronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74373-8_11
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