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The journey of an Earth-like virtuel planet (green) in the Solar System -heliocentric view- [Le voyage d'une planète virtuelle identique à la Terre (verte) dans le système solaire -point de vue héliocentrique-].




A virtual Earth-like planet (green) is added to the actual Solar System. Each frame of this animation corresponds to a particular trajectory of this planet when moved from beyond Pluto -bottom left- to the Sun -top right- and 16.pi rotated. Each of these trajectories has a duration equals to one plutonian year (247 terrestrial years). For each of these intermediate trajectories, the 11-body system is visualized with the Sun at the origin of coordinates.


Please, note that due to scale problems, it is almost impossible to visualize simultaneously actual distances and sizes in the Solar System. Then, it is the square root of the distances to the Sun that are displayed; when the Solar System is displayed without such a non linear scaling, the inner planets are "hidden" by the Sun. Moreover, the diameter of each celestial body is multiplied by a huge arbitrary factor.


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