Solar system simulator

Solar system simulator for modeling the movements of celestial bodies. Made as a course project for Aalto University course CS-C2120.

Building

To rebuild from source, run

sbt clean package

in the project root.

(Requires sbt https://www.scala-sbt.org/)

Using

Run solar-sim.jar with java or run directly in sbt with

sbt run

in the project root.

Credits

Data for the default displayed solar system gotten from JPL:s planetary ephemerides:

• https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi

4th order Runge-Kutta method for calculating orbital movements:

• http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/nbody/OrbitRungeKutta4.pdf
• https://gafferongames.com/post/integration_basics/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge-Kutta_methods