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Traditionally, the many-body point mass gravitational problem has been divided into the two-body problem, the few-body problem and the many-body problem. Dynamical situations encountered in the solar system lie within the province of the few-body problem where orbits have to be calculated precisely, in contrast to many body problems such as star clusters or galaxies where statistical or hydrodynamical approaches can be applied.
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Roy, A.E., Steves, B.A. (1999). Introduction. In: Steves, B.A., Roy, A.E. (eds) The Dynamics of Small Bodies in the Solar System. NATO ASI Series, vol 522. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9221-5_34
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