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This program models the motions of up to ten bodies as they are acted upon by the gravitational or electromagnetic forces between them. The user has the option of specifying the number of planets, the mass, position, and velocity of each of the planets, as well as certain physical characteristics of the universe that these planets inhabit.
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Hubbard, J.H., West, B.H. (1992). Planets. In: MacMath 9.0. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0390-9_17
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