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Choreography SC.97

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.97 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 11.284 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 51767), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0437 of each other at a top speed of 5.39, line up 54 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 4.3×10⁻²⁷.

Measured over one period

Period: 11.28408209
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0451
Closest approach: 0.04365
Top speed: 5.388
Path length: 51.960
Alignments per period: 54
Topology: unresolved (close passages hide the crossings in the drawing)
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 5.2×10¹³)
Loop closure: 4.3×10⁻²⁷

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