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Hello. First, I would like to congratulate you all on such an excellent web site. I really enjoyed it. However, when I was using the Creator applet, I found an error in the Solar System. Using the preloaded time step, Mercury will go flying off due to the innacuracy in calculation with the time step. Therefore, I reduced the time step, and it works well now. Also, I added a radius to the planets that weren't assigned to any radius. Good luck with ThinkQuest!

set timestep 100000
set unit au
set screen width 70.0
set unit meter

add sun
set sun mass 1.989e30
set sun image 01.gif
set sun radius 6950000000
set sun height 30
set sun width 30

add mercury
set mercury mass 3.30e23
set mercury position x 57910000000.0 y 0
set mercury velocity 47872.5 bearing 180.0
set mercury radius 2440000
set mercury image 02.gif
set mercury width 10
set mercury height 10

add venus
set venus mass 4.869e24
set venus position x 108208930000.0 y 0.0
set venus velocity 35021.0 bearing 0.0
set venus radius 605180.0
set venus image 03.gif

add earth
set earth mass 5.9742e24
set earth position x 149600000000.0 y 0.0
set earth velocity 29785.9 bearing 180.0
set earth radius 6378150.0
set earth image 04.gif

add mars
set mars mass 6.4219e23
set mars position x 227936640000.0 y 0
set mars velocity 24130.9 bearing 180.0
set mars radius 3397000.0
set mars image 06.gif

add jupiter
set jupiter mass 1.900e27
set jupiter radius 71492000.0
set jupiter position x 778330000000.0 y 0.0
set jupiter velocity 13069.7 bearing 180.0
set jupiter image 07.gif

add saturn
set saturn mass 5.68e26
set saturn radius 60268000.0
set saturn position x 1429400000000.0 y 0.0
set saturn velocity 9700 bearing 180.0
set saturn image 08.gif

add uranus
set uranus mass 8.683e25
set uranus radius 25559000.0
set uranus position x 2870990000000.0 y 0.0
set uranus velocity 6810.0 bearing 180.0
set uranus image 09.gif

add neptune
set neptune mass 1.0247e26
set neptune radius 24766000.0
set neptune position x 4504000000000.0 y 0.0
set neptune velocity 5400.0 bearing 180.0
set neptune image 10.gif

add pluto
set pluto mass 1.27e22
set pluto radius 1137000.0
set pluto position x 5913520000000.0 y 0.0
set pluto velocity 4737.0 bearing 180.0
set pluto image 11.gif

set unit au
set screen width 4.0

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