james_nicoll ([info]james_nicoll) wrote,
@ 2008-05-06 16:20:00
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Another cool toy
Solar System Visualizer

Dance, little planets and moons! Dance!

Nicked from the Planetary Society Blog

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[info]debgeisler
2008-05-06 08:49 pm UTC (link)
I notice they still list Pluto.

Hah!

Go Pluto! Go!

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[info]mollydot
2008-05-06 09:35 pm UTC (link)
And Charon is orbiting it.

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[info]anton_p_nym
2008-05-07 12:35 am UTC (link)
When did Pluto get those extra moons?

-- Steve once again finds his mental map of the universe obsolete at best.

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[info]selidor
2008-05-07 02:31 am UTC (link)
It hit arXiv in January 2006, was published a little later in Nature. arXiv:astro-ph/0601018v1

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[info]cynthia1960
2008-05-06 09:12 pm UTC (link)
This rocks all the worlds.

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[info]kayshapero
2008-05-06 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Looks like something else to save the link to until I can get over to the library wi-fi (which is not going to be today)... Thanks!

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[info]roseembolism
2008-05-06 10:33 pm UTC (link)
Oh this is such a wonderful time waster.

Hm. i notice that the planet at epsilon eridani has a fairly eccentric orbit. Does this kill the chance for life-bearing planets there? I'm wondering, because E. Eridani was considered one of the prime nearby candidates to have Earthlike planets.

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I'm sure this says more about me than anything else, . . .
[info]drpaisley
2008-05-06 11:31 pm UTC (link)
. . . but when I looked at Jupiter, my first thought was of the family in Arkansas with 15 or 16 or however many kids. That's gotta be what breakfast time looks like there.

Thanks, that's way cool.

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Re: I'm sure this says more about me than anything else, . . .
[info]mckitterick
2008-05-07 01:23 am UTC (link)
Bwahahahaha!

I love how fast the Inner Planets whiz about the farther out you move your POV.

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Re: I'm sure this says more about me than anything else, . . .
[info]oneironaut
2008-05-08 03:07 am UTC (link)
Because of that acceleration, if you hold the zoom out button down you get an effect kind of like the entire solar system circling down a drain.

This is going to keep me occupied for a while.

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[info]mckitterick
2008-05-07 01:22 am UTC (link)
That is so cool!

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they have a bunch of extrasolar-systems, too
[info]bpholden
2008-05-07 01:59 am UTC (link)
check out the multiple planet systems, some have cool resonances and wacky orbits



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[info]selidor
2008-05-07 02:28 am UTC (link)
I really, really want to see this with all the trans-Neptunian objects as well. It will be spectacular!

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[info]micheinnz
2008-05-07 05:46 am UTC (link)
Beyond cool. But, as others have noted, not without flaw.

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[info]pixelmeow
2008-05-07 04:56 pm UTC (link)
WOW! I need to not look at this while at work.

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