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Choreography SC.297

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.297 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 16.35 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 28856), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.102 of each other at a top speed of 3.38, line up 54 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 7.1×10⁻²⁷.

Measured over one period

Period: 16.34958043
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0913
Closest approach: 0.1025
Top speed: 3.378
Path length: 80.702
Alignments per period: 54
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 2.9×10¹⁶)
Loop closure: 7.1×10⁻²⁷

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