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Choreography SC.208

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.208 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 14.926 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 6605), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0185 of each other at a top speed of 8.13, line up 66 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 2.6×10⁻²⁶.

Measured over one period

Period: 14.92598540
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 0.98660
Closest approach: 0.01852
Top speed: 8.130
Path length: 68.305
Alignments per period: 66
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 6.6×10¹⁸)
Loop closure: 2.6×10⁻²⁶

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