Digital Orrery
notes: label: Description
content: The digital orrery, a machine that was designed to do high-precision integrations for orbital mechanics experiments, was developed in the 1980s by Gerald Jay Sussman (b. 1947), a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, “Numerical Evidence That the Motion of Pluto is Chaotic,” Science 241 (July 22, 1988), pp. 433-437.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gerald Jay Sussman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0429.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0429.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0429
objectType: label: Object Name
content: orrery, digital
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in x 23 3/4 in; 41.91 cm x 31.75 cm x 60.325 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in x 23 3/4 in; 41.91 cm x 31.75 cm x 60.325 cm