Is there a 3-D rendering of the entire solar system? I mean the whole thing all the way to the farthest regions. (The edge of the Oort Cloud?) The solar system would be in the shape of a sphere with the sun at the center. Planets orbiting the sun could be a reference for the XY plane. Then we would be able to see all the objects within the solar system and their respective orbits. I guess this is what our solar system would look like in 3-D: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Thanks! Do the 8 planets really orbit on the same plane? None of them have the slightest incline from the ecliptic?
both mercurius and pluto have pretty egg shaped orbits, but only kuiper belt and the Oort cloud (Pluto) has a large tillted axis.
It's a great applet, however it does not do the entire solar system including the Kupier Belt and extending far beyond. Even the planetoid Sedna orbits the Sun far beyond the Kupier belt and what is shown in that rendition. I would like to at least see Xena's eliptical orbit.
Model of solar system. If we used a ball with the diameter of about 6ft. to represent the sun, Mercury would have to be represented by a ball with the diameter of ¼in situated about 200ft away. Neptune would be a ball with the diameter of 9in situated about 3.71mi away.
for that reason any other representation is always going to be crap. First of all you would need to use a logaritmic scale, because the influence sfere of our sun is proberly around 1/3 the distance to the closest star I read so basicly that's more then a light year. And it's yust not possible to represent this propperly with JAVA. And abouth Xena I don't believe the angelar motion is known exactly. But because the Oort cloud is sperical in stead of a disc it can be between 0 and 90
I'm not too familiar with the characteristics of Promiscuous Centaurus, but I regard the entire solar system as everything within the scope of the termination shock. I assume that anything beyond that is just empty space until the next star system which might not even be as large as the solar system. That would leave a great deal of space between the edge of the solar sytem and the edge of the next star system. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Try http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ It doesnt have the Kuiper belt, I don't think, but otherwise it's very good.