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!
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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!
2.6 Changelog:
Fixes for updated Opera widget security specifications
The orbit for Venus is correct. What Venus does differently is *rotate* or spin clockwise; but it still orbits in a counter-clockwise direction. This spin is what creates planetary night and day and is not represented in PlanetWerks. All of the other planets spin counter-clockwise.
well Venus Orbit is wrong If viewed from above the Sun's north pole, all the planets are orbiting in a counter-clockwise direction; but while most planets also rotate counter-clockwise, Venus rotates clockwise in "retrograde" rotation this is a bit problem, but have anothers that makes this Widget not correct
I am having difficulty slowing the orbit speeds down. I only seem to be able to speed them up. I would like to slow everything down so it takes the earth six hours to orbit the sun. Or, just a lot slower than the default. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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If viewed from above the Sun's north pole, all the planets are orbiting in a counter-clockwise direction; but while most planets also rotate counter-clockwise, Venus rotates clockwise in "retrograde" rotation
this is a bit problem, but have anothers that makes this Widget not correct
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