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by ekianjo 473 days ago
Is the 3 body problem mostly meaningful above a certain mass? If you had small satellites could you deal with it?
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The restricted three-body problem deals with the case when the third mass is trivial and the orbits are circular. The new solutions in this case are the Lagrange points. That's helpful, but doesn't make finding dynamic solutions much easier on it's own.
The mass of a satellite is already trivial compared to the mass of the moon.