Author Topic: Comets (Read 13491 times)

atomic7732 · « **on:** August 22, 2009, 12:25:10 PM »

Make a System for comets!

PLZ!

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2009, 12:52:57 PM »

Already been said by me. I'm sure Dan has taken it into consideration.

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #2 on:** August 22, 2009, 08:35:26 PM »

Quote from: NeutronStar on August 22, 2009, 12:25:10 PM

Make a System for comets!

Explain your request in more detail. Describe a comet simulation that would be completely satisfying.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2009, 09:17:28 PM »

Every periodic comet and some major non-periodics

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2009, 10:25:55 PM »

Exactly.

I would love to see this.

hbmp88 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2009, 02:59:43 AM »

And the planets.

I don't think it would be that great if it was only comets.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 23, 2009, 09:56:06 AM »

That's what it menat.

Naru523 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 23, 2009, 02:59:03 PM »

Would be fun of the gas giants (and maybe the terristial planets) change the orbits of the comets!

atomic7732 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 23, 2009, 02:59:32 PM »

Your talking of Gerhels 2 and 3!

atomic7732 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 23, 2009, 03:03:06 PM »

Comets!

Naru523 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 23, 2009, 03:08:06 PM »

I like Comet Lulin and Swan...

atomic7732 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 23, 2009, 03:09:19 PM »

I know, cyanogen is awesome in comets!

Here's a recent one...

Naru523 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 23, 2009, 03:11:30 PM »

atomic7732 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 23, 2009, 03:13:00 PM »

I know

hbmp88 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 23, 2009, 09:12:35 PM »

Quote from: Naru523 on August 23, 2009, 02:59:03 PM

Would be fun of the gas giants (and maybe the terristial planets) change the orbits of the comets!

Truly a glimpse into the future.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:36:45 PM »

Every day I will give a quote on comets... Today my cometary quote is on

1P/Halley

Quote from: Wikipedia

Halley's Comet or Comet Halley (officially designated 1P/Halley) is the most famous of the periodic comets and can currently be seen every 75â€“76 years. Many comets with long orbital periods may appear brighter and more spectacular, but Halley is the only short-period comet that is clearly visible to the naked eye, and thus, the only naked-eye comet certain to return within a human lifetime. During its returns to the inner solar system, it has been observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC, but it was not recognized as a periodic comet until the eighteenth century when its orbit was computed by Edmond Halley, after whom the comet is now named. Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System in 1986, and will next appear in mid-2061.

More on Comet 1P/Halley...

Naru523 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 27, 2009, 10:08:24 AM »

um... wheres the other two? lol

atomic7732 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 27, 2009, 11:24:28 AM »

FGFG · « **Reply #18 on:** August 27, 2009, 03:30:07 PM »

Quote from: NeutronStar on August 25, 2009, 07:36:45 PM

Every day I will give a quote on comets...

atomic7732 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 27, 2009, 04:18:24 PM »

Sorry. How about everyone make a system of periodic comets? Then we can get it faster and put them on here as like, say, Our Solar System - Periodic Comets # through #. Remember XML. And so we can get prescice orbits. Go to at least third decimal. e.g. 2.549 AU If the third is a zero use a fourth.

Who wants 1P-25 P?
Who wants 26P-50P?
51P-75P?
76P-100P?
I call 101P-125P I like Swift-Tuttle
126P-150P?
151P-175P?
176P-200P?
I call 201P-222P I want lots of LINEARs

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #20 on:** August 27, 2009, 05:30:22 PM »

I will include data for at least several hundred comets in the next release.

I've got ways of automating much of the data entry and collection, so don't go to too much trouble.

(I don't promise that comets will look any better though, eventually they will, but not for the initial v2 release.)

atomic7732 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 27, 2009, 05:37:07 PM »

I'm gonna do it now. Cause I already started. If no one else will do it. I will. Is this compatible with Horizons Automator? GSim is. I can't seem to work Horizons Automator though. So...

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #22 on:** August 27, 2009, 08:21:15 PM »

I'll be happy just to have a system with comets. I always wondered where they are in our solar system.