>"Quite precise data for thousands of NEOs is available, but its needs converted to position and movement vectors to use in this simulation."
https://github.com/strainer/fancy
Thanks for the good discussion. I'm still unconvinced that asking for climate models to report on conservation of energy is "undue speculation", but I really don't know how big a deal it is. Anyway, I looked at my old code and here is some R to get the JPL data and convert to state vectors, hopefully you can use/translate it to easier test your sim:
Thankyou for bearing with me - Ive been under the weather and have trouble explaining myself at the best of times.
The tricky thing I ran into with the JPL NEO data was they don't seem to release the co-ordinates for them as they do the major solar system bodies. It looks like they just serve out a selection of orbital and observational measurements, which someone has figured out how to convert already, but it could take me ages.
A priority for the project is tidying and documenting code so that other people might use it. Recently facility for efficient collision processing was built, next I want to accommodate multi-point objects and types of bonds, to start more down to earth simulations which is what Im most interested in - dynamic spatial awareness for vacuum cleaners and things :)
Thanks for the good discussion. I'm still unconvinced that asking for climate models to report on conservation of energy is "undue speculation", but I really don't know how big a deal it is. Anyway, I looked at my old code and here is some R to get the JPL data and convert to state vectors, hopefully you can use/translate it to easier test your sim: