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I'm amused It's been at least 3 days since first news articles about it appeared, and there's not a single image of its orbit relative to Earth best I can fin
by NooneAtAll3 1y ago
I'm amused
It's been at least 3 days since first news articles about it appeared, and there's not a single image of its orbit relative to Earth
best I can find it https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/09/2025-PN7-NASA-Sep-7-2025-e1757256962223.png https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/09/2025-PN7-NASA-Sep-7-2025-e1... showing orbit relative to Sun
Is there really no consumer program to show orbit relative to Earth? Can't you just shove orbital parameters into Universe Sandbox and press "center camera on" Earth?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoMaybe you can get a Kerbal Space mod to add it?
- ddahlen 1y agoHere you go, here is its orbit from 1900 to 2100 in the earth's rotating frame, sun is at -1 on the x axis. https://dahlend.github.io/2025_PN7_Orbit_1900-2100.png https://dahlend.github.io/2025_PN7_Orbit_1900-2100.png Its hanging out for a while near us. Shameless plug for my software I used compute it: https://github.com/dahlend/kete https://github.com/dahlend/kete