Astronomy Simulation

Note: This Project is going to work best on mouse-based devices with larger screens. Requires Javascript, obviously

This project is my attempt at simulating the solar system.

Below you will find the bodies to be simulated. They are listed in order of distance from the Sun, except for subsections, which (generally) indicate Moons, and are listed in order of distance from orbited body.

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Moon

Mars

Phobos
Deimos

The Asteroid Belt (The “Big Four” Bodies here are found within the Asteroid Belt)

Ceres
Pallas
Juno
Vesta

Jupiter

Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto

Saturn

Titan

Chiron (Has an unstable orbit, crossing between Saturn and Uranus. On average it sits between Saturn and Uranus)

Uranus

Neptune

Triton

Pluto (These last four bodies are listed in terms of average distance from the Sun)

Charon

Eris

Sedna

I am mostly using the knowledge described in Jean Meeus’s Astronomical Algorithms book to do my simulations.