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It's still unknown whether or not these orbits are stable. It seems probable that they're unstable, in which case you would never expect to find them in the universe.


They're probably all unstable except for the figure-8. Numerical experiments suggest that there should be somewhere from one to 100 figure-8 systems in the observable universe: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/N-body_choreographies


Also worth noting that the mass of each star involved in a figure-8 would have to be pretty much identical.


All these solutions are for bodies of equal mass.




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