boogabooga
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I had a wonderful view of the Perseid meteor shower last Thursday. I went to a really dark state park, had really clear skies, and saw about 60 over the course of about 90 minutes. :thumbup:
Naturally, I'm now working an Orbiter simulation of the Perseid meteor shower.
I plan to release it as an add-on, and I can write a tutorial that can be applied to other meteor showers if there is interest.
I have a few questions for the community:
1) I want to scale an asteroid mesh down to about one cubic centimeter in size. I've looked into Shipedit.exe to carry out the scaling, but I don't know how much to scale by since I'm not sure exactly how large the asteroid mesh is to begin with. What is "MC integration"? There is a reference to "Volume" but the reported values don't make sense to me. They seem to be the same order of magnitude for Carina as they are for a large asteroid. Are there units to the volume or is it something else?
2) How fast does comet ejecta leave a parent comet? Or more to the point, how different would one expect the orbit of a meteoroid be compared to the parent body? I ask because I wonder how well my technique produces a representative Perseid meteor's orbit.
Naturally, I'm now working an Orbiter simulation of the Perseid meteor shower.
I plan to release it as an add-on, and I can write a tutorial that can be applied to other meteor showers if there is interest.
I have a few questions for the community:
1) I want to scale an asteroid mesh down to about one cubic centimeter in size. I've looked into Shipedit.exe to carry out the scaling, but I don't know how much to scale by since I'm not sure exactly how large the asteroid mesh is to begin with. What is "MC integration"? There is a reference to "Volume" but the reported values don't make sense to me. They seem to be the same order of magnitude for Carina as they are for a large asteroid. Are there units to the volume or is it something else?
2) How fast does comet ejecta leave a parent comet? Or more to the point, how different would one expect the orbit of a meteoroid be compared to the parent body? I ask because I wonder how well my technique produces a representative Perseid meteor's orbit.