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Choreography SC.323

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.323 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 16.576 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 56443), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0709 of each other at a top speed of 4.39, line up 78 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 2.2×10⁻²⁶.

Measured over one period

Period: 16.57613730
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0946
Closest approach: 0.07094
Top speed: 4.392
Path length: 80.485
Alignments per period: 78
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 5.6×10¹⁸)
Loop closure: 2.2×10⁻²⁶

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