# Cool Link: Orbits

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-link-orbits/159354>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [August 16, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-link-orbits/159354 "2005-08-16T22:36:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![lava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@lava](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lava)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-link-orbits/159354/1 "2005-08-16T22:36:24Z")

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Wow, this totally rocks my world. Check out this link, it’s an applet demonstrating periodic orbits for systems with more than one body:  
[http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~charlie/3body/](http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~charlie/3body/)

I found the link through this page, which explains a little bit about the history of the problem: [http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050813/mathtrek.asp](http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050813/mathtrek.asp)