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I recently learned that from a distance moon looks like revolving around sun rather than earth. It's orbit does not mak e loops/spirals. Instead it's more like
by smusamashah 2y ago
I recently learned that from a distance moon looks like revolving around sun rather than earth. It's orbit does not mak e loops/spirals. Instead it's more like a dodecahedron. Or if seen in isolation around sun, it will look like normal circular orbit.
Can you add an option to switch drawing orbit of moon around the sun of its planet instead of its orbit around its planet?
- mkl 2y agoYou probably intended to say dodecagon - a dodecahedron is a totally different kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedron. It's not that tidy, though, as after a year the moon is not where it started. The moon goes through closer to 12 and a half orbits around the Earth in a year than 12, so it doesn't trace out a dodecagon. The moon's path does look pretty circular though, as the average distance between Earth and the moon is only about 0.00257 the distance between Earth and the sun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon#Path_of_Earth_and_Moon_around_Sun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon#Path_of_Eart...