Regular Motion: the Star Pattern
Side View (x-z section)
View from Above (x-y section)
The applet above shows a solution of the dynamical system,
integrated numerically with a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method.
It is a low energy case, and the motion is regular.
The horizontal cross-section should look similar to this image:
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Updated 23 March, 2001