Timeline for Solar System Position and Velocity data
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| Nov 18, 2018 at 12:17 | history | edited | kalle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
remark about integration method
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| Nov 18, 2018 at 12:11 | comment | added | kalle | You are absolutely right, @2Ring ! Even using a simple Runge-Kutta Method would lower the error immensely! I'd like to highlight one of the most striking STABLE constellation: The infinity loop: Infinity Loop. 3 Objects are circling around each other in a stable 8 or $\infty$ form. It is analytically stable, but not found anywhere in the universe as far as I know. | |
| Nov 18, 2018 at 5:46 | comment | added | user7971589 | Appreciate you sharing this! Eventually though I ended up painstakingly copy pasting the information from the horizons website into a text file I could read in. Gonna probably have to write a script that does this for me if i wish to do it with more bodies! | |
| Nov 18, 2018 at 5:44 | vote | accept | user7971589 | ||
| Nov 18, 2018 at 4:39 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | FWIW, your code uses simple Euler integration, which quickly accumulates errors unless the time step is tiny. You get much better results using a more accurate integrator, preferably a symplectic integrator (which conserves energy), like Leapfrog or Verlet. | |
| Nov 17, 2018 at 23:18 | history | answered | kalle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |