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Choreography SC.313

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.313 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 16.501 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 16128), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0858 of each other at a top speed of 3.78, line up 72 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 3.7×10⁻²⁹.

Measured over one period

Period: 16.50134905
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.1133
Closest approach: 0.08585
Top speed: 3.776
Path length: 80.555
Alignments per period: 72
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 1.6×10⁹)
Loop closure: 3.7×10⁻²⁹

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