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Choreography NC.11

From Hristov, Hristova, Puzynin, Puzynina, Sharipov & Tukhliev (2024)

Choreography NC.11 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 125.49 time units, published by Hristov, Hristova, Puzynin, Puzynina, Sharipov & Tukhliev (2024). Choreographies whose knot is not a power of the figure-eight’s: three bodies on one closed curve with a topology of its own. Computed to 180 digits; all unstable. It is unstable (largest Floquet multiplier 16616563547), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.119 of each other at a top speed of 3.31, line up 60 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 1.5×10⁻²¹.

Measured over one period

Period: 125.4851673
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -0.738715
Angular momentum: 0
Closest approach: 0.1192
Top speed: 3.311
Path length: 202.24
Alignments per period: 60
Topology: 0 (free-group class)
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 1.7×10¹⁰, published)
Loop closure: 1.5×10⁻²¹

Neighbours on the map

All Nontrivial choreographies, the families of periodic three-body orbits, or the atlas map.