 Zero-energy circular motion in a point-dipole field

For potential energy homogeneous of degree $-2$, Newton's second law gives $d^2{r}^2/d{t}^2=4E/m$. Indeed, Euler's identity implies $\mathbf{r}\cdot \mathbf{F}=2U$, so the second derivative equals $2v^2+4U/m=4(K+U)/m$. Thus a trajectory with zero total energy and initially zero radial velocity remains on a sphere of constant radius. A positive electric charge released from rest on the equator of a fixed ideal electric dipole has these properties; in its meridional plane it oscillates on the semicircle on the negative-pole side. A finite two-charge electric dipole does not have exactly homogeneous potential energy and perturbs this result.