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Hortlund · « **on:** July 02, 2003, 03:30:22 PM »

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/satellites.html

This is addictive as hell...

gofaster · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:35:22 PM »

You're right.

I actually got a couple of them to swirl around the moon and the planet before getting sucked into the atmosphere. I do better when I release multiple bodies instead of one at a time; as in, click, click, click --> swirl -->swirl --> crash, crash, crash

instead of

click--> swirl--> crash
click -->swirl--> crash

Hortlund · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:36:15 PM »

I had one make a perfect 8 around the earth & moon

The fun thing is that even if you send them on gigantic orbits off the screen they will come back

Frogm4n · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:37:50 PM »

strangely it is. you can get some odd orbits going. i have 5 going in what seems to be perpetual orbits

Hortlund · « **Reply #4 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:39:30 PM »

You know you can give it speed by holding the mousebutton and moving the mouse? That is how I got the 8

Hortlund · « **Reply #5 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:45:49 PM »

WOHOO...one of mine has been in orbit for 40 laps now...

SOB · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:48:46 PM »

Sweet, I think I've got one in infinite orbit. Been spinning for a few minutes now. Just started it close to the earth and gave it a little kick with the mouse. It alternates between an oblong and circular orbit. Man, I should be a rocket scientist!

SOB

funkedup · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:49:30 PM »

Nice.
I used a sim like this in a college class on space flight. We had the whole solar system in there with the orbits of various comets and stuff, lots of fun.

Hortlund · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:50:20 PM »

Yeah, I think I have that orbit too. Whenever the angle is too steep and you know it will hit the earth next time, the moon comes along and holds it back some...

Skuzzy · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:51:26 PM »

Just broke 100 laps.

Too bad they dunt have a counter on it. I think my guy will orbit for a few years.

AWMac · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:54:34 PM »

Perk the Sattelites!

Tarmac · « **Reply #11 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:55:44 PM »

Am I a dork for feeling worried when my "perpetual" orbit starts swinging perilously close to the atmosphere?

Oh the suspense!

boxboy28 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:55:54 PM »

click like mad andf you get some cool strings going! Very fun!

Dowding · « **Reply #13 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:56:59 PM »

Asking that question automatically makes you a dork.

I tell it like it is.

Hortlund · « **Reply #14 on:** July 02, 2003, 03:58:26 PM »

LOL

*Hortlund pictures Skyzzy sitting infront of his screen counting the orbits 98....99...100...101...102...*

(mine has been in orbit for close to 20 mins now)