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Golden pancake drama

Golden pancake drama is the one linearly stable orbit of the September 2026 new-family search, with masses 1, 0.612 and 1; beside it are six samples of the closed mass loop it sits on, an isola whose middle mass runs from 0.469 to 0.635 and never reaches equal masses, with a stretch of the orbit’s own topology and a stretch shaped like a threefold figure-eight satellite. Numerically verified to 160 bits; not published elsewhere.

Golden pancake drama are periodic solutions of the planar three-body problem. The atlas holds 7 of them, with periods from 8.846 to 11.45, for several mass ratios; 1 of them are linearly stable. They come from Three Body Orbits (2026), golden pancake drama: a linearly stable three-body orbit on an unequal-mass isola. Every orbit is precomputed to machine precision and plays one period at a time; open one to watch it, nudge it or rate it.

Three Body Orbits (2026). golden pancake drama: a linearly stable three-body orbit on an unequal-mass isola. Draft numerical research note (PDF), threebodyorbits.com, 9 September 2026