Notes from Independent Study Meeting
                      Jan 18, 2022

Present: Richmond, Dayal

  - possible directions the project can go

          a) Breakthrough Starshot ship to Alpha Centauri
          b) Solar System simulation
          c) Station keeping for a satellite under various conditions
                 e.g., Earth has two moons
                       cubical planet
                       Jupiter and its many many moons

          Any of these are okay for the final project

  - first goal (Friday, Jan 21): acquire and test an N-body simulation code

          grab code from a reliable source
          download and run on local computer

  - second goal (Mon, Jan 24): verify that output is correct
   
          set input to "Earth and Sun, 2-year period"
          compute output
          create graph of motion
          verify that Earth goes around Sun twice