Orbits

Gravity and Orbits is a a Java application designed to enable you to investigate the forces that affect planets. Move the sun, earth, moon and space station to see how it affects their gravitational forces and orbital paths. Visualize the sizes and distances between different heavenly bodies,...

The Ejs N-body Orbits model displays the dynamics of three to five identical masses orbiting each other subject to Newtonian gravity. The simulation displays the periodic orbital motion of the masses. The initial configuration of the system can be changed via slider. You can modify this...

The Orbits Within Spherical Galaxies model displays the two-dimensional trajectories of particles (stars) within a galaxy having a spherically symmetric mass distribution that heuristically approximates the distributions found in galaxies and bulges. The model uses a mass density proposed by...


Platforms: Mac

The EJS Ballistics and Orbits model displays ballistic trajectories near the Earth. The model shows the trajectory with respect to the inertial coordinate system and the trajectory as seen from a point of view that is co-rotating with the Earth. You can examine and modify this simulation if you...


Platforms: Mac

Screensaver that shows a 3D random arbitrary solar system that shows planets with random orbits and textures from real solar system planets and imaginary planets around the sun. It's free of adware,ads,virus,etc... and it's freeware.


Platforms: Windows

This spacecraft begins in a GTO and spirals out of Earth's SOI, then orbits around the sun and spirals in to Mars. This model uses ODE23 to integrate a 4-body gravitational model including a forcing function. The engine has an Isp of 3000 sec and a thrust of 200 mN. This was basically a code I...


Platforms: Matlab

Octave-Equivalence Tool was written in September 2006 to assist in the aural modelling of planetary orbits. This database automates the calculation of octave-equivalent audible frequencies and visible colour for large-scale periodic systems such as planetary orbits.


Platforms: Windows

Gravity Simulator allows you to study the orbits of planets, moons, asteroids, or any object in the universe, by performing n-body simulations.You can recreate simulations performed by professional astronomers, or experiment with simulations of your own creation. Gravity Simulator's rotating...


Platforms: Windows

Analysis and simulation of orbits in the circular-restricted three-body problem (CRTBP), where primary and secondary bodies move in circular orbits about the common center of mass, and effect of gravitational attraction of the smallest body are ignored. The applications described here are for...


Platforms: Matlab

Simulates the motion of a single planet in a binary star solar system. Uses Simulink to solve the equation of motion for the planet. The stars are assumed to be stationary. Have fun changing the system parameters to generate strange orbits!


Platforms: Matlab

PlanetFinder is an on-line learning module. It instructs students how astronomers fit model Doppler velocity curves to data representing extra-solar planetary systems. This module can be run from the University of Colorado servers, or downloaded, installed, and hosted on your local servers.


Platforms: Mac

The Kepler System model simulates Kepler's final theory of planetary motion. In this theory the planets orbit in ellipses with Sun at one focus (Kepler's First law). These elliptical orbits are not necessarily all in the same plane. A line from Sun to the planet sweeps out equal areas in equal...


Platforms: Mac

The GR Kerr Stone program simulates orbits of an object in the equatorial plane near a rotating black hole using the Kerr metric. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the gr_kerr_stone.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. The default is an...


Platforms: Mac

The GR Classical program simulates orbits of objects around a central mass using Newtonian mechanics. It also displays a plot of the effective potential well in which the orbiting particle resides. GR Classical is part of a suite of Open Source Physics programs that model aspects of General...


Platforms: Mac

The GR Schwarzschild Particle program simulates orbits of objects around a black hole using the Schwarzschild metric. It also displays a plot of the effective potential well in which the orbiting particle resides. GR Schwarzschild Particle is part of a suite of Open Source Physics programs that...


Platforms: Mac

The GR Kerr Exploding program simulates orbits of objects released in an explosion in the equatorial plane of a rotating black hole using the Kerr metric. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the gr_kerr_exploding.jar file will run the program if Java is...


Platforms: Mac

Solarsystem is a screensaver, for Linux and UNIX systems, that displays the planets of the Solar System (inc Pluto). A random planet is chosen and rotated on screen against a starfield background. As the planet orbits the sun, it transitions from light into darkness and a corona effect appears.


Platforms: *nix

3D Solar System Screensaver lets users view every planet and space object that circles the sun with Full 3D environment. The Solar System consists of the Sun and the objects including the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. 3D Solar System Screensaver...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 7

Solar System 3D Simulator is a FREE software application that generates a realistic solar system model and planets in 3 Dimension on the PC using advanced physics formulas. It can display the planets and their orbits, the sun and the moon. The nine planets including planet earth and their...


Platforms: Windows

The Moon Screensaver is created from 19 high resolution images of the moon, all of them of high quality and very nice. The moon is the second brightest object in the sky, after the sun. The moon orbits around the Earth once a month, and the angle between the moon, Earth and sun changes (calld...


Platforms: Windows