Planets

A simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems

Science

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Planets in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own planets package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so Planets should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Everything runs on the device's own processor, with no GPU compute, and instruments attached over USB are not visible to Linux apps. More about science apps in Breadstick.

About Planets

From Debian's package description

Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems. It is great for teaching gravitation on planet level.

The user interface is aimed at being simple enough for a fairly young kid to enjoy it, there is a special kid-mode for this purpose.

From Debian's description of the planets package, under that package's license. The project text Debian publishes for this app could not be traced to a file in the package, so its license is unknown. Debian's description is shown instead.

Menu categories
Astronomy, Physics, Education, Science

Related apps

All Linux science apps

Sources and licenses

  • Name and summary: the desktop entry in Debian's planets package, under that package's license.
  • Description: Debian's description of the planets package, under that package's license.
  • Icon: the project's own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache for the planets package.
  • Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
  • Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.

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