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Choreography SC.295

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.295 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 16.345 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 52581), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0955 of each other at a top speed of 3.56, line up 54 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 3.2×10⁻²⁶.

Measured over one period

Period: 16.34506064
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0959
Closest approach: 0.09546
Top speed: 3.564
Path length: 80.682
Alignments per period: 54
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 5.3×10¹⁸)
Loop closure: 3.2×10⁻²⁶

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