there was some progress with special cases
of the 4-body problem, but the three-body is supposed
to be generally intractable.

Newton is just an algebraization of Kepler;
they're, both, 2-body orbital constraints.

it should be noted, however,
that better models along the lines of Kepler's,
of the nested polyhedra, have been developed,
as published in *21st C. Science and Technology*.

The Kepler laws only function for two isolated masses.
The efect of Sun on the system Earth-Moon is not counted.
The parabolic orbits of the comets are not included.
Only with complete Newton mechanics can, the path of a satelite, be

NB: Gauss didn't bother with Newton's thing for that,
I assume. Newton's "laws" indeed are the two-body problem,
with the proviso that he stole the inverse-second-power "law"
from Hooke, whose portraits were burned by President N.

this just in:
yesterday's (Tues,. Nov.15) *UCLA Daily Bruin* finally noted that
darfur is entirely Muslim, though downplaying it AMAP.

thus:
Dick Cheeny, Don Rumsfeld and Osama bin Latin form a mission
to Darfur, to prevent a war instead of to start one:
if Darfur is "100% Muslim," then
what's really going on, there?
is it just aother British Quag for USA soldiers to get bogged
into, with Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan et al ad vomitorium,
under auspices of the UN and NATO?
why won't the Bruin publish the fact of Islam on the ground,
therein?

thus:
Why doesn't the [UCLA Daily] Bruin report that
Darfur's populace is "100%" Muslim,
according to the DAC's sponsor,
Terry Saunders?...
"99%" was the figure given
by Brian Steidle, when I finally found
him at the Hammer, after everyone else
had left (he, his friend & I were the
very last to leave!)...
What could it possibly mean?

--The Other Side (if it exists)