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Choreography SC.184

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.184 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 13.988 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 1.9107e+21), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0265 of each other at a top speed of 6.83, line up 54 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 2.7×10⁻⁸.

Measured over one period

Period: 13.98755362
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0629
Closest approach: 0.02645
Top speed: 6.826
Path length: 66.690
Alignments per period: 54
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 1.9×10²¹)
Loop closure: 2.7×10⁻⁸

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