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New Gravity & Orbits Sim

Move the sun, earth, moon and space station to see how it affects their gravitational forces and orbital paths. Visualize the sizes and distances between different heavenly bodies, and turn off gravity to see what would happen without it!

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Wednesday

Feb 9

2011

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Vladan Al. Mladenovic #

Feb 13th, 2011 at 6:30 am

Congratulations!!! 100 SIMS!!!

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Helen #

Apr 16th, 2011 at 4:51 am

The educational value of this one is huge, probably the biggest of all the sims. Engineering the model of gravitational forces of space bodies is probaly the most difficult of the tasks.

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Olivia #

Apr 17th, 2011 at 9:02 am

This one is really nice for classes. Any more sims of space objects interactions coming?

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Justin A #

Jun 22nd, 2011 at 8:16 am

Please keep up the good work. Waiting for next one.

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Sciatic Nerve Pain #

Sep 12th, 2011 at 4:02 pm

A very good job!

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Invertir en bolsa #

Oct 10th, 2011 at 3:37 pm

This is great to understand the relationship between the sun, earth and moon. Congratulations!

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