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Talk:N-body problem
"The two-body problem is simple; its solution is that each body travels along a conic section and their common focus is the center of mass."
This is far from clear. Should it perhaps be: "... each body travels along a conic section whose focus [or: one of whose foci] is the two bodies' common center of mass"?
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Perhaps "...each body travels along a conic section which has a focus at the centre of mass of the system". -- Khendon 14:24 Oct 28, 2002 (UTC)
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