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In this paper we show the existence of three new families of planar central configurations for the 5-body problem with the following properties: three bodies are on the vertices of an equilateral triangle and the other two bodies are on a perpendicular bisector.
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Llibre, J., Mello, L.F. New central configurations for the planar 5-body problem. Celestial Mech Dyn Astr 100, 141–149 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-007-9107-4
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