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Choreography SC.28

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.28 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 6.5698 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 17681), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0503 of each other at a top speed of 4.95, line up 30 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 5.1×10⁻³⁰.

Measured over one period

Period: 6.569833853
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.1294
Closest approach: 0.05025
Top speed: 4.949
Path length: 31.383
Alignments per period: 30
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 1.8×10⁶)
Loop closure: 5.1×10⁻³⁰

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