Solar system orbit model online?
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The current best online mapping program of the solar system is Celestia
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/...
The program has 3d mapping of all the planets of the solar system (similar to google earth, but for all planets in the solar system), you can have it see the orbits of all planets, and moons. You can also change your view to move around the solar system.
and to top it all off, it is freeware, and there are many upgrades for the images.
Go here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/...
If you want to be able to compare the relative positions of the planets, go here:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/solar/...
If you want a scale model, go here:
http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/model2.htm...
or here:
http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/s...
http://www.troybrophy.com/projects/solar...
(There's a lot of scrolling and some planets are very tiny.)
Here's a calculator for scaling your own model:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_...
General Solar System Info:
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/so...
http://burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/sola...
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