Psyche For an orbital mechanics HW I was looking at Psyche and the effects of different perturbations. Psyche, an M-type asteroid, is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt and contains about 1% of the belt’s entire mass. As an M-Type asteroid, Psyche is expected to be a reddish world mostly made up…
Ceres In 2006, the International Astronautical Federation formally defined both planets and dwarf planets. “A “dwarf planet” is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) has not cleared the…
What are Attractors Attractors, in dynamical systems are structures that a lot of initial conditions evolve to over time. When the dynamics are chaotic, if an attractor exists, they often have a fractal structure which makes them gorgeous to visualize and are called strange attractors. Below are three, 3-dimensional strange attractors as well as the…
Gereshes is now 2(ish) years old, so I figured it’s time for a quick Core Dump! Numbers In 2019 there were 54000 visitors to Gereshes that viewed 83000 pages. Not bad for such a math-heavy site! Last year only had 35 posts, with an average of 700 words per post. This ends up being about…
