Shoemaker-Levy

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Spec

Shoemaker-Levy

Post #1by Spec » 21.08.2002, 03:52

Hello,

First I would like to say that it's great to find a program like that and on top of it it's open-source!!! - Thanks!!!

I would like to see the Shoemaker-Levy's course in Celestia. I understand that it's problematic to desribe it's movement with mathematical formulas because it's stopped existing in 1994 (one could do it dividing its move into periods). Sorry if it's a lame question but I don't know how astronomy (and celestia) describes moves of objects. Google search returned a lot of noise ;)

Best regards,
Marek
spec (at) webtech (dot) pl

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Post #2by Sum0 » 21.08.2002, 09:58

Cool idea, we could do it with the .xyz coordinates system.
"I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."


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