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Choreography SC.344

From Simó (2001)

Choreography SC.344 is a periodic orbit of the planar three-body problem: three equal masses that return to their starting positions and velocities every 17.271 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 98674), so a small nudge makes it unravel over a few periods. The bodies pass within 0.0321 of each other at a top speed of 6.02, line up 102 times a period, and the computed loop closes to 4.7×10⁻²⁴.

Measured over one period

Period: 17.27111184
Masses: 1 : 1 : 1
Energy: -4.50000
Angular momentum: 1.0727
Closest approach: 0.03214
Top speed: 6.019
Path length: 77.470
Alignments per period: 102
Stability: unstable (|λ|max 9.9×10¹⁹)
Loop closure: 4.7×10⁻²⁴

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