In celestial mechanics, Jacobi's integral (named after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi) is the only known conserved quantity for the circular restricted three-body problem problem ; unlike in the two-body problem, the energy and momentum of the system are not conserved separately and a general analytical solution is not possible. The integral has been used to derive numerous solutions in special cases.
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