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Choreography SC.225

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.225 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 15.132 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 4.4712e+23), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0442 of each other at a top speed of 5.07, line up 90 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 2.4×10⁻²³.

Measured over one period

Period: 15.13228265
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0458
Closest approach: 0.04424
Top speed: 5.067
Path length: 70.013
Alignments per period: 90
Topology: unresolved (close passages hide the crossings in the drawing)
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 4.5×10²³)
Loop closure: 2.4×10⁻²³

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