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The two-body problem is the only case of the N-body problem that one can solve completely; therefore it has been investigated in all its details and there are innumerable treatments of it even at an elementary level with special regard to its application to the solar system. But the “solution” of this problem also has certain features which deserve to be discussed both on their own and as a basis from which to begin studying more complex problems.
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Boccaletti, D., Pucacco, G. (1996). The Two-Body Problem. In: Theory of Orbits. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03319-7_3
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