{"id":1986,"date":"2014-10-19T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/MyToE\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2017-10-01T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:11:02","slug":"animated-movies-of-comet-siding-spring-passing-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/2014\/10\/19\/animated-movies-of-comet-siding-spring-passing-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated movies of comet Siding Spring passing Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out a little animation I did using my research tool. It is of the comet Siding Spring that gave Mars a close shave this weekend&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to create a version yourself, all you need is the free<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/cdf-player\/\"> Wolfram CDF player<\/a> and go to my interactive visualization tool at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/visualizations\/interactive\/\">http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/visualizations\/interactive\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Select the NBody Gravitational Universe simulation and select the &#8220;Recombination&#8221; epoch (the last one on the timeline).<\/p>\n<p>Please note, there are two distance scales (outer planets to start, and quickly switches to inner planets as it gets close to Mars).<br \/>\nThe planets are scaled relative to each other in each of these scales, but not relative to the Astronomical Unit distance scale between them.<br \/>\nBTW &#8211; The Sun is not shown, since at that planetary scale it is actually bigger than the frame of the animation \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The time scale goes from last year to next year. It changes from linear around this weekend (0s) and goes exponential on the outer orbits.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out a little animation I did using my research tool. It is of the comet Siding Spring that gave Mars a close shave this weekend&#8230;. If you want to create a version yourself, all you need is the free Wolfram CDF player and go to my interactive visualization tool at: http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/visualizations\/interactive\/ Select the NBody &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/2014\/10\/19\/animated-movies-of-comet-siding-spring-passing-mars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Animated movies of comet Siding Spring passing Mars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","tag-physics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theoryofeverything.org\/theToE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}