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Saturday April 30th, 2016:

6 days until Ramageddon

Objectives:

• Break down the workload.

Break into 3 major parts; Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

Week 1 Objectives:

• Simulate the entire solar system; create force, and integrator algorithms for all planets
• Work out Rama's hyperbolic orbit
• Possibility try to work on the graphics (for the poster)
• Essentially complete the lion's share of the code

Week 2 Objectives:

• Have a working simulation of the solar system with Rama
• Predict an accurate trajectory of Rama's trajectory (entry and exit) through inner solar system
• Plot out relative position of both Earth and Rama over time to analyze the potential collision
• Calculate the relative distance between Earth and Rama over time

Week 3 Objectives:

• Start rounding up the data to begin analysis
• If haven't already started, begin generating the graphics for the poster and ppt
• Begin creating the poster
• Begin the write up (individually)
• Write the abstract

• Decide on simulation details

• Decide on how accurate we want the simulation; real-time vs arbitrary
• Coordinate system
• Gather appropriate parameters

• Gather resources

• Gather code from previous assignments that may be useful

• Figure out how far we can get in the code given what we have

• Try to create some bare-bones code that can be adjusted to suit our needs