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Choreography SC.65

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.65 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 9.3983 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 82337), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0855 of each other at a top speed of 3.53, line up 42 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 3.3×10⁻²⁹.

Measured over one period

Period: 9.398313593
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0791
Closest approach: 0.08548
Top speed: 3.533
Path length: 45.304
Alignments per period: 42
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 8.2×10⁸)
Loop closure: 3.3×10⁻²⁹

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