This simulator models the movement of planets around the sun in a simplified Copernican model
of the solar system.
TIP: View the web page at 90% zoom (if needed).
This simulator is an HTML5 reimplementation of the Solar System Configurations simulator
that was originally developed as part of the Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project.
The original simulation, along with related teaching materials, may be found at:
https://astro.unl.edu
This simulator is part of the Foothill AstroSims project, which is aiming to reimplement,
in HTML5, Flash-based simulations that are used in Foothill Astronomy courses.
Similar projects include work done by Nik Nyby at Columbia University (https://github.com/ccnmtl/astro-simulations) and Kevin Ditts at the University of New Mexico (https://physics.unm.edu/Courses/Rand/applets/).