Solar System Orrery
shared by JeroenGommers on Jul 24
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This interactive aims to give people a sense of how the planets in our solar system orbit the sun. In a simplified graphical representation the planets are seen orbiting the sun at a relatively high s...
peed. The user is encouraged to grab any one of these planets, drag it around the sun manually and experience the orbit periods of the other planets as they are driven along their orbit at relative speeds, uncovering the ‘interplanetary clockwork’. This alone is the simple essence of the interactive.
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Jeroen GommersSource
https://atla...ystem.htmlCategory
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