Oh great.. like I don't have enough time wasters. :-)
I have 2 that have been going for the last half-hour or so, but they're very erratic.. and I've had a couple that have had their orbits reversed by the moon.
I've gotten stable orbits a couple of times now, ones that hold for an hour or more. The trick seems to be making it retrograde, with an apogee around half that of the moon's orbit and a period that's some resonant multiple/fraction. When the top of the loop lines up with the passing moon, it circularizes the orbit a bit; otherwise, I imagine the satellite would auger in on the next orbit or the next.
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Date: 18 Oct 2002 14:20 (UTC)Everything was stable until one of comets came back screwed up the balance of the inner sattellites.
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Date: 19 Oct 2002 00:07 (UTC)I have 2 that have been going for the last half-hour or so, but they're very erratic.. and I've had a couple that have had their orbits reversed by the moon.
This is waay cool.
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Date: 19 Oct 2002 00:19 (UTC)