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Choreography SC.94

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.94 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 11.17 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 2708), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0854 of each other at a top speed of 3.73, line up 42 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 1.5×10⁻²⁷.

Measured over one period

Period: 11.16960027
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.1087
Closest approach: 0.08539
Top speed: 3.731
Path length: 54.185
Alignments per period: 42
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 2.7×10¹⁷)
Loop closure: 1.5×10⁻²⁷

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