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Choreography SC.114

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.114 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 11.883 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 48121), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.148 of each other at a top speed of 3.07, line up 72 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 5.5×10⁻²⁹.

Measured over one period

Period: 11.88260283
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0880
Closest approach: 0.1479
Top speed: 3.074
Path length: 58.164
Alignments per period: 72
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 4.8×10¹⁰)
Loop closure: 5.5×10⁻²⁹

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