PlanetWerks

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by GreyWyvern

V2.4 May 30, 2008 3:37:30 PM

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
Transparency fixes for *NIX desktops

Comments 53 posts

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The most important reason ever to beg my boss for buying me a more contemporary (i.e. faster) machine. :-)

Great.

By seeg, # Aug 18, 2006 11:54:02 PM

Brillant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By lgethins, # Aug 14, 2006 9:24:48 AM

Man, this a gem!
What makes this widget really great are those interesting facts about the solar system

By Indyan, # Jun 25, 2006 5:49:24 PM

Nice!

By Dima64, # Jun 21, 2006 9:16:57 AM

i suppose the slogan "the fastest browser on earth" must be changed with "the fastest browser in the solar system"

By padule, # Jun 19, 2006 3:54:49 PM

By YinYanger, # Jun 16, 2006 7:05:16 PM

You have been warned, turn around
A secret planet has been found
Press the key for a vowel sound
An icon revealed, red and round
(Yeah, I'm not good at this)

By yadavankur, # Jun 14, 2006 6:34:41 AM

an easter egg? which?

By padule, # Jun 13, 2006 3:59:42 PM

Yay!! I found an oeaster egg!!

By yadavankur, # Jun 12, 2006 6:55:29 AM

Great!! But this toy is too expensive for me to play

and add some UFOs and ETs plz

By wangjiaji, # Jun 10, 2006 5:57:11 AM

This is so damn cool!! Celestia inside a widget (OK this is an exaggeration but the widget is supercool). I love anything to do with space... as far as I am concerned this is the best widget ever.

I don't have an external grafix card so this widget takes 100% CPU usage, but who cares, its the entire solar system on your desktop.

Stellarium next?

By yadavankur, # Jun 9, 2006 7:38:36 PM

Ooooooh! Pretty shiny things!
Seriously, that is one good-looking and interesting widget. Great to pin to the desktop with the background off, although it is tricky to click things without the background.

By johnnysaucepn, # Jun 9, 2006 0:16:27 AM