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Choreography SC.14

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.14 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 5.3584 time units, published by Simó (2001). Carles Simó’s catalogue of three-body choreographies with nonzero angular momentum, the curves that made choreographies famous. All unstable except the figure-eight. It is unstable (largest Floquet multiplier 80825), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0492 of each other at a top speed of 4.46, line up 24 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 1.4×10⁻²⁹.

Measured over one period

Period: 5.358410205
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0375
Closest approach: 0.04918
Top speed: 4.458
Path length: 25.922
Alignments per period: 24
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 8.1×10⁸)
Loop closure: 1.4×10⁻²⁹

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