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OK, Here's what I would like to see: 1) A URL scheme that would allow the sharing of locations, times and track settings via the Internet. This may have to be encoded representation of binary data, not sure maybe the experts can pipe in. 2) In the same vein, Multiuser support allowing for multiple u...

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Guess I opened Pandora's Box (I couldn't resist). I actually wondered if somehow the proximity of the rings were a factor in making the shepards difficult to plot, weird gravitational forces and other ring factors causing chaos that would make their movement unpredictable.

I tried cycling through the whole day of 12/23/95 and they never come close. Their orbital periods are different so I'm sure that if I observed it long enough they would pass. My real question is why doesn't this happen on 12/23/95? I did notice that the orbital period of Pandora is listed as 0.6285...

I downloaded the 'Minor Moons of the Giant Planets' hoping to get a view of Prometheus and Pandora (Sheparding moons of Saturn's rings) similar to the way they appear in this photo: http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951223.html However, when I rewind the Celestia clock to 12/23/95, Promethus and Pand...