Can you find Uranus?
Can you find Uranus?
Can you Check out another kick-ass online solar system model.
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http://phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/#neptune
http://phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/#pluto
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I have better uses for my fingers, thank you very much!makc wrote:Can you Check out another kick-ass online solar system model.
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Under uranus?apodman wrote:Note the relative position of the cursor in the horizontal scroll bar.
we need spoiler tag here.
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To make it more interesting, they ought to place the planets above or below the center line according to their displacement from the ecleptic. Of course that might be problematic for Pluto, since it is on a highly inclined orbit. But who cares, it's not a planet anyway, so says the IAU.
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Every planet crosses the ecliptic twice in its orbit. So do you mean the page should be dynamic, showing the current distance from the ecliptic, or that it should be static and show the maximum displacement?bystander wrote:To make it more interesting, they ought to place the planets above or below the center line according to their displacement from the ecleptic.
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I was thinking maximum displacement, if you were going to show current, you would probably want to show current orbital distance, not average. Basically I was wanting something that showed the relative inclinations of the orbits.Chris Peterson wrote:Every planet crosses the ecliptic twice in its orbit. So do you mean the page should be dynamic, showing the current distance from the ecliptic, or that it should be static and show the maximum displacement?
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bystander wrote:... show ... showed
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showapodman wrote:bystander wrote:... show ... showed
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Well call me a silly literalist. When something is shown to me, my spoiled self expects it to be visible without all the fun searching and scrolling.
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there's no point to this model without scrolling
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in space no one can hear you scroll