I think you're assuming that the asteroid is in the ecliptic plane, which is may not be correct. Does anyone know the inclination of this asteroid to the ecliptic?
Well, bash Fortran all you want, but for most scientific/engineering applications it's STILL the best, and will be the best for the foreseeable future.
What can be done (and it's what we do here at work) is to write the math/scientific/engineering core of the application in Fortran, and put a C/C++/Visual Basic/Tcl-Tk GUI around it, if you wish. We've found this approach works really well.
First picture received & posted (Friday, 12:44 PST) at
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
Looks like a rocky field, not unlike those old Venera images of Venus. Hats off to ESA & NASA!
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have to agree with 'Anonymous Coward' on this.
I think you're assuming that the asteroid is in the ecliptic plane, which is may not be correct. Does anyone know the inclination of this asteroid to the ecliptic?
More like an elephant plowing through a swarm of flying insects...
Well, bash Fortran all you want, but for most scientific/engineering applications it's STILL the best, and will be the best for the foreseeable future. What can be done (and it's what we do here at work) is to write the math/scientific/engineering core of the application in Fortran, and put a C/C++/Visual Basic/Tcl-Tk GUI around it, if you wish. We've found this approach works really well.
Indeed, congratulations to India, and hoping for more Indian missions in the future...
First picture received & posted (Friday, 12:44 PST) at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm Looks like a rocky field, not unlike those old Venera images of Venus. Hats off to ESA & NASA!
It's all part of President Bush's plan to transform the US population into an 'ownership society'...
Couldn't have said it better myself!! Merry Xmas!