This project takes inspiration from Arthur C. Clarke's classic novel "Rendezvous with Rama." The goal being to create a model of Rama's passage through the inner solar system as if it were on a hazardous trajectory with Earth. Considerations were taken in for the planets respective mass, semi-major axis in relation to the Sun, eccentricity, inclination etc. Visual Python was used to create animations of the scenario. Two key resources that helped make this possible were:
"Calculating Keplerian Elements.pdf" provided by JPL. It can be found under the
resourcesdirectory.
"Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students" by Howard Curtis
Contributors:
Jordan Boyd |
[email protected]
Ashley Mascareno |
[email protected]
Andrew Winhold |
[email protected]
#License This repository and all of its contents are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version.
Please see license.txt for more details
Submission: all the code and data required to perform the required simulations.docs: notes and other documentation.poster: directory with presentation poster.resources: documents and code that aided in design.Work: additional code and data that you want to version control.
Additional Notes: This repository was created for a final project in our class at ASU PHY494: Computational Methods in Physics (spring 2016).