Orrery

December 6, 2024 Reading time: ~1 minute

Planets Orrery now works thanks to Ruffle Flash Emulator. Orrery that illustrates the positions of the planets and moons in our solar system and allows a user to view their alignment at any given date in the past or present.

It was was found in DynamicDiagrams.com around 2010.

An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. It may also represent the relative sizes of these bodies; but since accurate scaling is often not practical due to the actual large ratio differences, a subdued approximation may be used instead.