Abstract
After a review in the literature we have seen that the Restricted Three-Body Problem (RTBP) is a topic with some publications focused, primarily, on resolution of the mathematical problem, with very few application in real and contextualized situations. In addition, in analyzing textbooks of classical mechanics we observed that the RTBP is not developed and didactically explored. Based on this facts, our objective in this work is to present, develop and apply the RTBP to simulate the orbits of two objects in the solar system : motion of Earth-trojan asteroid 2010 TK7 and libration of pluto due to Neptune. To solve differential equations of RTBP we uses the cauchy method in a code written in the Python programming language. With this work we hope to demonstrate that the study of the RTBP can be used to contextualize some concepts of celestial mechanics and orbital dynamics.Since it is related to the study of differential equations, with universal gravitation and numerical methods.
Keywords:
Celestial mechanics; Restricted problem of the three bodies; Teaching of astronomy
