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Choreography SC.214

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.214 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 14.987 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 21847), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0279 of each other at a top speed of 6.46, line up 66 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 5.3×10⁻²⁸.

Measured over one period

Period: 14.98670519
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0357
Closest approach: 0.02790
Top speed: 6.455
Path length: 69.648
Alignments per period: 66
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 2.2×10¹¹)
Loop closure: 5.3×10⁻²⁸

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