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Broucke–Boggs S23

(0.09, 0.03, 2.88)

From Broucke & Boggs (1975)

Broucke–Boggs S23 (0.09, 0.03, 2.88) is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three masses in the ratio 0.09 : 0.03 : 2.88 that return to their starting positions and velocities every 12.566 time units, published by Broucke & Boggs (1975). Broucke and Boggs’s 1975 survey of periodic orbits at many mass ratios, most of them reported linearly stable. It is linearly stable (largest Floquet multiplier 1.000), so a small nudge only makes it wobble. The bodies pass within 0.918 of each other at a top speed of 1.42, line up 6 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 7.2×10⁻²⁵.

Measured over one period

Period: 12.56637079
Masses: 0.09 : 0.03 : 2.88
Energy: -0.109667
Angular momentum: 0.10159
Closest approach: 0.9182
Top speed: 1.415
Path length: 32.362
Alignments per period: 6
Topology: a (free-group class, read from the drawing, shape period T/3)
Stability: stable (|λ|max 1.000)
Loop closure: 7.2×10⁻²⁵

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