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Choreography NC.5

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

Choreography NC.5 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 100.85 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 2539), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.223 of each other at a top speed of 2.28, line up 42 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 4.9×10⁻²⁷.

Measured over one period

Period: 100.8454105
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -0.714343
Angular momentum: 0
Closest approach: 0.2225
Top speed: 2.284
Path length: 173.18
Alignments per period: 42
Topology: aabABaBabABBabAABabAbABabbAB (free-group class)
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 2539, published)
Loop closure: 4.9×10⁻²⁷

Neighbours on the map

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