An interactive, educational and accurate Solar System simulation
A planetarium on your Desktop!
PlanetWerks is a three-dimensional widget-sized tour through our solar system. A sophisticated control system brings you amazing views and fun facts! Movement in PlanetWerks 2 incorporates accurate 2-body motion; so objects orbit the sun the same way they do in the actual solar system! Also included, switch to a linear scale model to see just how vast the solar system really is. Four levels of precision rotation and zoom control to help get those great views! Then click planets and satellites for fun facts and statistics!
2.3 Changelog:
Added dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake
2.2 Changelog:
Added orbital path trails; toggle with [T]
Corrected an orientation calculation error
Fixed a bug affecting retrograde orbits under linear speed
Many performance and memory tweaks
Added [Backspace] to mimic [Delete] for Macbook keyboards
Added [Shift]+[Delete] to mimic [Insert] for Mac keyboards
@merrickal: Pluto is still in this simulation, but it is still the same size as before. IOW, very very small
It is also on a 17 degree incline wrt the other planets as it is in the actual solar system. Make sure you're looking all around outside the orbit of Neptune and you'll find it eventually
You may find it easier to halt the motion of the planets (C) and use the Q, W, A, S, Z, X, J and K keys to move around the system manually.
I thought about putting in a mechanism to move the planets automatically to focus in on each of them, but a) it would be a lot of work, and b) I think it's more fun to find them yourself
I am dependent on others for translations as my first language is English :| If you know of anyone who would be interested...
At the end of every factbox chain there is a link to Wikipedia, I don't think there is enough room to put a link on each one.
Anti-clockwise? That depends on which way you think is up! But PlanetWerks is a fully rotatable simulation, so you can also hold down Z or X until the planets are orbitting in the direction you prefer
Nice! Space is one of my fields of interest, so this widget is among my favourites. Please make it multi-linqual. Provide a link for further reading in every factbox. Don't the planets orbit anti-clockwise around the sun?
It's great! Very nice and useful widget! I've just translated it into Russian, so may I publish this translated version here? All copyrights are saved and license is not changed.
@chrisgl: The only thing I changed was the text in the factboxes which previously referred to Pluto as a planet. Pluto is still in this simulation I may add Ceres in an upcoming version, but probably not "Xena" unless I make significant changes to the orbiting equations. Right now there is no accounting for eccentricity and "Xena" has a highly elliptical orbit.
wonders if it could develop into something really serious like celestia.
発言者 chesss, # 2007/02/21 22:32:11
発言者 salem407i, # 2007/01/23 12:23:52
Pluto is still in this simulation, but it is still the same size as before. IOW, very very small
It is also on a 17 degree incline wrt the other planets as it is in the actual solar system. Make sure you're looking all around outside the orbit of Neptune and you'll find it eventually
You may find it easier to halt the motion of the planets (C) and use the Q, W, A, S, Z, X, J and K keys to move around the system manually.
I thought about putting in a mechanism to move the planets automatically to focus in on each of them, but a) it would be a lot of work, and b) I think it's more fun to find them yourself
発言者 GreyWyvern, # 2007/01/16 4:43:59
発言者 merrickal, # 2007/01/13 15:22:58
There is already a Russian version which you can find here: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/5683
I am dependent on others for translations as my first language is English :| If you know of anyone who would be interested...
At the end of every factbox chain there is a link to Wikipedia, I don't think there is enough room to put a link on each one.
Anti-clockwise?
Thanks for your comment!
発言者 GreyWyvern, # 2007/01/12 13:39:06
発言者 Erestor, # 2007/01/11 20:56:42
You should get an academy award, this should be published for schools!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
発言者 warpkasper, # 2006/12/22 7:40:36
発言者 darklord48, # 2006/12/01 20:01:06
発言者 Dragn, # 2006/10/30 1:52:27
I've just translated it into Russian, so may I publish this translated version here? All copyrights are saved and license is not changed.
発言者 ry75, # 2006/10/28 22:05:26
発言者 PaulOnPC, # 2006/09/23 16:34:29
@PaulOnPC:
I probably could, but it would almost certainly slow the animation of the widget itself to a crawl
発言者 GreyWyvern, # 2006/09/20 15:55:56
Request: Could you make the sun have animated solar flares ??
My hat goes off to you matey
発言者 PaulOnPC, # 2006/09/17 6:35:18
Grretings from *digitaldouchebag*
発言者 digitaldouchebag, # 2006/09/15 13:23:00
The only thing I changed was the text in the factboxes which previously referred to Pluto as a planet. Pluto is still in this simulation
@Nishant Sawant:
No worries!
発言者 GreyWyvern, # 2006/09/07 20:36:26
発言者 Nishant Sawant, # 2006/09/07 15:45:06
<grin>
I gather it's not set in stone yet - Planet Wars!
What about a config check box to allow us to follow the little planet's fortunes?
chris :-)
発言者 chrisgl, # 2006/09/02 10:40:43
Thanks
発言者 praveershukla, # 2006/09/01 15:08:39
Great.
発言者 seeg, # 2006/08/18 23:54:02
発言者 lgethins, # 2006/08/14 9:24:48