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Topic: Gravity



Be a satellite spotter
See when satellites will be passing over your location. This site will also make sky charts.

Find the value of g at your location
Using your altitude and latitude, find the value of the acceleration of gravity at your location.

Gravity maps of the Earth
View 2-D and 3-D gravity maps of the Earth from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) based at the University of Texas.

The three-body problem
The unsolvable three-body problem: How do you find the location of an object in a complicated gravitational system at any point in time? You can't!