What would happen if our solar system had three suns? Or the Earth had two moons? You can find out all these and more with this lesson on orbital mechanics. Instead of waiting until you hit college, we thought we'd throw some university-level physics at you... without the hard math.
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Yes we know, I am sorry that it no longer works. We’ve been in touch with the programmers at Phet, and they are currently working on this particular one, since it was so popular. They expect it to be up and running soon, but didn’t give a specific date. We did try to help them out by asking folks to donate to their company to help support this particular simulator. There really isn’t another that really works as well as this one did. This is the best one at the moment: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/gravity-and-orbits/latest/gravity-and-orbits_en.html
Hi, just wanted to let you know that the Solar System Simulation link does not work because it is Flash based which is no longer supported. Any other options? Thanks!