I found a very interesting utility on the Internet that simulates galaxy collisions on your PC: http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/astrosoft.html

Here are my initial settings:

0 0 100
0 0 0
5 5
1
QuickDraw and Reverse checked, number of iterations set to 9999.

The result are the two galaxies colliding top-down and bottom-up, with both being totally destroyed in a highly cataclysmic dual cone expansion pattern!

Play with it for a while - you'll get hooked!

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Here's another - I was able to get one galaxy to remain relatively unscathed, while the other was taken completely out of its own orbital plane and is now in a fairly toroidal pattern orbiting the center of the other galaxy, but doing so about 90 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic!

0, 0, 100
.1, 0, 0
.02, 10
5

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

When Galaxies Square Dance!

100, 100, 100
.05, 0, 0
1, 2
.5

Quick draw and reverse rotation "on".

I ran it @ 20,000 iterations.

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That is pretty friggin cool. Thanks.

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The Gravity and Planetary Orbits program is actually quite useful. Science and fun, does it get any better than that?

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