macORSA 0.7 review

ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 12838K Developer: ATG Price: $0.00 Updated: 06 Apr 2006

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ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, Solar, and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed.

Features: - accurate numerical algorithms - use of JPL ephemeris files for accurate planets positions - Qt-based graphical user interface - advanced 2D plotting tool and 3D OpenGL viewer - import asteroids and comets from all the known databases (MPC, JPL, Lowell, AstDyS, and NEODyS) - integrated download tool to update databases - stand alone numerical library liborsa - save and restore session from a single file

Here are some key features of "macORSA":
accurate numerical algorithms
use of JPL ephemeris files for accurate planets positions
Qt-based graphical user interface
advanced 2D plotting tool and 3D OpenGL viewer
import asteroids and comets from all the known databases (MPC, JPL, Lowell, AstDyS, and NEODyS)
integrated download tool to update databases
stand alone numerical library liborsa
save and restore session from a single file.

What's New:
2 different installer version - one with datafiles (61Mb), one without the datfiles (12.5Mb).

Requirements:
TrolltechQt/Mac 3.3 (compile with thread support; an installer is available on http://naranja.umh.es/~atg ).