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The straight-line collision solution in the anisotropic Kepler problem is extended to a periodic solution by means of Sundman's analytic continuation. It is shown that this collision periodic solution is always exponentially unstable.
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Yoshida, H. Exponential instability of collision orbit in the anisotropic Kepler problem. Celestial Mechanics 40, 51–66 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01232324
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