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Choreography SC.194

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.194 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 14.183 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 56654), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0462 of each other at a top speed of 5.11, line up 114 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 9.8×10⁻²⁹.

Measured over one period

Period: 14.18348575
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0221
Closest approach: 0.04621
Top speed: 5.114
Path length: 63.279
Alignments per period: 114
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 5.7×10⁵)
Loop closure: 9.8×10⁻²⁹

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