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Solar System

About This Project

An approximate visualisation of the bodies in our solar system. Asteroid positions are computed from Minor Planet Center orbit determination. No perturbations are applied to the orbits - calculations assume asteroids are in elliptical orbits around the sun - so they are inaccurate when simulating far in the future or past.

Full code for this project is available on GitHub and is freely licensed under the MIT License.

References

• Asteroid orbits are from the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center.

• Stellar positions are from the Yale Bright Star Catalog.

• Planetary (and Pluto) orbits are computed from JPL Solar System Dynamics.

• Orbital Mechanics, Wikipedia

• Curtis, Howard D. 2019. Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students: Revised Fourth Edition. ISBN 978-0-08-102133-0.