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The Three-Body Problem

Unlike the two-body problem, the three-body problem has no general closed-form solution. The motion is often chaotic — tiny changes in initial conditions lead to wildly different outcomes. However, some special stable configurations exist, like the famous Figure-8 orbit.

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