Kepler's Ellipses with BBC Basic
Planetary orbits are elliptical
as Kepler showed us.
Kepler's Ellipses is scientific in that
it gives you the parameters for each ellipse, but if you keep your finger
down on the "Space Bar" it soon becomes quite artistic as the following
pic shows you:
To see how this is done, click for the the Listing
More Ellipse Programs :
Very elliptical orbits shows comet-like
orbits ( Listing )
Simulated Planetary Orbits shows a scenario
for lowish-ellipticity orbits in possible solar systems. Listing
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