https://github.com/alex-kennedy/solar-system

An orbit visualisation site.
https://github.com/alex-kennedy/solar-system

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An orbit visualisation site.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alex-kennedy/solar-system
• Owner: alex-kennedy
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-11-28T10:31:07.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-07-20T08:17:21.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-20T10:13:00.340Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: astronomy, data-visualization, physics
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage: https://solarsystem.alexkennedy.dev
• Size: 4.89 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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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](https://github.com/alex-kennedy/solar-system) and is freely licensed

under the [MIT

License](https://github.com/alex-kennedy/solar-system/blob/main/LICENSE).

## References

- Asteroid orbits are from the [International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center](https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/data).

- Stellar positions are from the [Yale Bright Star Catalog](http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html).

- Planetary (and Pluto) orbits are computed from [JPL Solar System Dynamics](https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?planet_phys_par).

- [Orbital Mechanics, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_mechanics)

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