don_keedick

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I recall he said something about it being related to planetary motion in space.

If you have only 2 bodies, you can derive the equations of motion very easily and you get Kepler's laws.

But if you add a 3rd body, then there's no way to obtain their equations of motion and you must use numerical methods to calculate their motion step by step.