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Choreography SC.146

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.146 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 13.062 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 13536), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0998 of each other at a top speed of 3.4, line up 78 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 6.3×10⁻³⁰.

Measured over one period

Period: 13.06170600
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0734
Closest approach: 0.09984
Top speed: 3.403
Path length: 62.857
Alignments per period: 78
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 1.4×10⁹)
Loop closure: 6.3×10⁻³⁰

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