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Choreography SC.326

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.326 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 16.583 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 2.9369e+21), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0684 of each other at a top speed of 3.9, line up 84 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 2.4×10⁻²⁵.

Measured over one period

Period: 16.58275773
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0806
Closest approach: 0.06845
Top speed: 3.905
Path length: 80.247
Alignments per period: 84
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 2.9×10²¹)
Loop closure: 2.4×10⁻²⁵

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