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yeah... now i got the orbits... i realised that i was putting distances either too far away or too near..
i wanted to know this... when i used auto save... the data txt file that was created... was too complicated to comprehend... is there any way to make it more readable???

thanks... i'll try that

i know this sounds quite silly... i created about 3-4 objects around jupiter... but im not able to get them to perform the simulation.. i tried lots of things like enter the time and the period of simulation... but nothing worked... i dunno wots wrong... could u suggest anything.. ??

yeah... i know its quite difficult to do that... that is why i was looking for some simulators on the net.. though now looks like i'll havta write my own code... hopefully at some time in the future i'll be successfull...

and then this simulation can be generalised to involve bodies around many planets at the same instant... so a more complicated simulation. atleast i hope that this can be done. as i'm not very good with programming, i'm looking for simulators which can do this.. or else i'll have to write my own pro...

what i want to do exactly is. take a body, jupiter for example. put a large number of smaller bodies at a specific distance around jupiter and then study the motion of these smaller bodies. as these bodies go around jupiter, they will orbit with jupiter around the sun. suppose jupiter comes to its p...

The gravity simulator software is quite good... only problem is that i cant modify it as per my requirements.. i can only add one main reference body and see the simulations of the other bodies around it... i need to see the orbit if some other body is brought in to perturb this config. but im sure ...

thanks a lot.. i'll check it out and see if it suits my purpose..

what i am looking for is something which can simulate the orbit of any body which is put withing the gravitational interaction range of a planet or the sun. Like suppose if an object is placed at some distance from earth, would the body orbit the earth like a satellite, or go around like a comet. Al...

Hey all. I'm from india and im a research assistant at the Indian Planetary Society. I'm currently working on a project which deals with cometary orbits. Is there any simulation software available which deals with orbits? Or some other open source softwares which can be modified to suit my purposes?...