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Choreography SC.102

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.102 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 11.537 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 14215), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0219 of each other at a top speed of 7.28, line up 54 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 8.1×10⁻²⁷.

Measured over one period

Period: 11.53660945
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0750
Closest approach: 0.02192
Top speed: 7.284
Path length: 51.676
Alignments per period: 54
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 1.4×10¹²)
Loop closure: 8.1×10⁻²⁷

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