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Choreography SC.341

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.341 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 17.219 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 13937), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0167 of each other at a top speed of 8.31, line up 102 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 9.0×10⁻²⁶.

Measured over one period

Period: 17.21888783
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0483
Closest approach: 0.01669
Top speed: 8.312
Path length: 77.569
Alignments per period: 102
Topology: unresolved (close passages hide the crossings in the drawing)
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 1.4×10²⁰)
Loop closure: 9.0×10⁻²⁶

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