Recent content by Ameise

The reason that I added eccentricity was that I am trying to form a linear equation in which I can set the parameters for mass AND eccentricity and get a result that my application can use. Being that it is technically a 3d simulation, all of my work is done using vectors (technically matrices...

Well, it isn't coincidence that the side of the moon that is tidal locked with the Earth is also the side with greatest amount of basalt... that side has more mass and is therefore more likely to be the side that locks with the Earth -- it would have locked either way in the end to do the simple...

Hello, I am working on a software application which will require me to generate objects in orbit around other objects. Now, this is my belief, and I am asking for correction if I am wrong--- If given two objects, O1 and O2, with masses M1 and M2, and I want to make O2 orbit O1 at an...