Planetary orbit simulator. Well, there goes productivity.

johnson1010 · Sun May 30, 2010 12:55 am

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/si ... lar_System

you can add planets and set rates, or use the pre-selected sets to watch 2-d planetary orbit simulations.

Newton, if only you could see this.

Robert Tulip · Sun May 30, 2010 5:17 am

This is superb. I've seen a roughly similar one before, I think called gravity simulator. I would like to work out how to illustrate the orbits of the gas giants.

There is a good one here with four stars in stable orbit. Moving the parameter for one just the slightest amount sends them haywire.

johnson1010 · Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:23 am

i spent like two hours on this the other day.

Creating a new set of stable orbits that lasts for more than ten minutes is an interesting challenge.

Robert Tulip · Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:28 am

I'm trying to simulate three planets around a star - See here. Will keep tinkering.

Robert Tulip · Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:56 am

The sun is 99.8% of the mass of the solar system. If you make the three planets much more than 0.2% of the mass in total they become unstable.

johnson1010 · Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:37 am

seems like maybe we are the only two here nerdy enough to enjoy this, RT.

johnson1010 · Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:40 pm

All other orbit animations wish they were this one.

Seriously.

http://www.wimp.com/earthyear/

geo · Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:49 pm


	johnson1010 wrote: seems like maybe we are the only two here nerdy enough to enjoy this, RT.

I should have mentioned that I found this to be very cool as well.

johnson1010 · Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:51 pm

I'm glad we are in good company!

froglipz · Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:10 pm

There went my afternoon. I had a difficult time getting the third planet in there, I wish I had come back and read the rest of the forum before I spent all that time tinkering with it.... VERY cool, an awesome time killer to be sure

Seraphim · Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:30 pm

That is an awesome animation, johnson. Thanks for sharing. And add my name to the list of people spending way too much time with that simulator in the first post.

johnson1010 · Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:44 am

Pretty cool orbit animation that produces a tone every time a planet completes an orbit.

Makes interesting "solar song".

http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/

johnson1010 · Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:10 pm

Epic Universal atlas presentation.

http://www.wimp.com/atlasuniverse/

geo · Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:24 pm


	johnson1010 wrote: Pretty cool orbit animation that produces a tone every time a planet completes an orbit. Makes interesting "solar song". http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/

That is way cool. It really shows how slow Pluto's orbit is compared with the inner planets.

froglipz · Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:31 pm


	johnson1010 wrote: Pretty cool orbit animation that produces a tone every time a planet completes an orbit. Makes interesting "solar song". http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/

Nice, that was pretty, kind of like a music box, with a rng.

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