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Title

Relativistic Interstellar Space Flight

Author

Al Kaufman

Organization:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Old MathSource #

0203-487

Revision date

1994-04-22

Description

Interstellar.ma uses the Bright Star Catalog to generate relativistically accurate movies of a flight to any star in the catalog. The user specifies: 1) the destination star; 2) the constant acceleration for the trip (in units of "g"); 3) the direction in which the camera should point

Subjects

	Science > Astronomy
	Science > Physics > Astrophysics
	Science > Physics > Relativity Theory

Keywords

interstellar space flight, relativity, sirius, stars, bright star catalog, graphics, animation, movie, graphics example, animation example, Applied Mathematics, Physics, aerospace engineering, Sirius.ma, Sirius.movie.sit.hqx

Downloads

StarCatalog.txt (85.9 KB) - Plain-text file containing star data for Interstellar

Interstellar.nb (15.2 KB) - Mathematica notebook to generate animations

Sirius.movie.sit.hqx (856.6 KB) - Binhexed self-extrating-archive QuickTime movie for the Macintosh

Sirius.nb (4.9 MB) - Notebook containing animated "spaceflight"

Files specific to Mathematica 2.2 version:

Interstellar.ma (14.4 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older

Sirius.ma (4.4 MB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older

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