Friday, March 20, 2009

Planet Positions from JPL

We found a good paper by E. M. Standish at JPL on Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets. This should be useful for initializing our program. However, we still don't know how to calculate the initial velocity vector if a planet is not at aphelion or perihelion. (Does this need to be found computationally?)

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