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Orrery: Solar System Simulator
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A Java applet that simulates gravitating masses. Features a working model with motions and sizes of 70 planets and moons to scale.
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SkyScopes
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Information about planetary astronomy and space exploration and habitat. Online chat, message boards, and related links. Sells replicas and toys.
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Orrery: The Solar System in Action
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A concise tour containing numerous educational resources, and support for Spacetech's Orrery application.
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Endless Boundaries
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Information on the Sun, planets and moons.
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The Solar Space Station
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Facts, descriptions and pictures, with sections about the Sun, the planets and meteors and asteroids.
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Views of the Solar System
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Comprehensive multimedia tour with statistical data, detailed information, pictures and videos. Also includes educational resources.
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Solar System Dynamics
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Web-based resources accompanying the book Solar System Dynamics, by Carl D. Murray and Stanley F. Dermott.
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A Planet Pursuit
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Pictures, facts and general information on the nine planets.
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Solar System Simulator
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Shows the position of Venus, Earth and Mars at any date from 1900-2100.
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BBCi Space: Solar System
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3D tour including videos with audio and text information on the Sun and the bodies orbiting around it. (Shockwave and Realplayer required)
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Stardate Online: Guide to the Solar System
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Contains an outline of the formation and evolution of planets, comets, asteroids, and of their features and exploration.
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Astronomy 161: The Solar System
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Overview with historical background and basic astronomy concepts, details about planets, satellites, asteroids, comets and meteors.
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Welcome to the Planets
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Select images from NASA's planetary exploration program.
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Aniket World
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Personal page reporting basic features of the planets and some links.
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The Solar System in Pictures
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Quizzes and images about all the bodies of our planetary system.
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Planetary Fact Sheet
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Table of essential measurements and facts regarding the nine planets with links to highly detailed summaries.
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Northeast Regional Planetary Data Center
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Includes list of available image collections and how to obtain the data at the facility (no images are online).
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Astronomy Today - Solar System
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Fairly detailed information about our sun and its planets.
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The Solar System
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History of and basic facts about major solar system bodies.
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The Solar System
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Detailed guide to the sun and planetary system, asteroids, comets, meteor hits on Earth and the other planets.
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About Atmosphere
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Summary information regarding the atmospheres of each planet in our solar system.
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Rotation of Sun and Planets
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The rotation period of a large body circled by one or more satellites can be calculated theoretically.
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Planetary Science Institute
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Research and educational institute with projects to study planets, asteroids, and comets.
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Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
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Journey to the outer reaches of the solar system and discover what scientists have learned about Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
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Free Software for Planetary Science
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Image processing browers for Mariner 6, 7, 9, 10, Venera 15/16, and Viking Orbiter.
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DiscoverThePlanets.Com
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Various images, brief information, moons, summaries of past and planned missions.
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Planetary Cartography and Graphics by Ralph Aeschliman
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Planetary maps and graphics of Mars, the Moon and Venus.
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Solar System - Celestial Mechanics
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A theory about the rotation of sun and planets, planetary rings, origin of solar system, solar cycles and climate variations.
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Virtual Solar System
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Images, facts and quizzes about the nine planets. Also includes a scale model.
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Smiley's Planet
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Explore the solar system's planets. Includes pictures, descriptions, statistical information and a special section on the latest voyage to Mars.
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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
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Protocols for naming planetary features, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union.
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Exploring the Planets
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Sponsored by the National Air and Space Museum, contains many interesting facts about the planets, pictures, comparisons and a section dedicated to spacecraft.
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Planetary Materials Curation
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Features Moon rocks, Mars meteorites, and space exposed materials at NASA's curation office.
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Solar System Ephemeris
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Providing ephemeris of a variety of Sun orbiting bodies.
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Our Solar System - Planets Alive
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Offers overview information. Includes list of planetary space missions.
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Nova Celestia
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Provides overview and original illustrations of elements.
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The Planetary Society: Our Solar System
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Concise information about all planets, comets and asteroids.
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Computing Planetary Positions
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A detailed online tutorial on how to compute planetary locations using math formulas.
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The Virtual Solar System
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Features a guide to the solar system for visitors of all ages with a scale model, interactive quiz, text, and images.
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Orrery
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A review, support, updates and resources for the solar system simulator. Includes details of the nine planets.
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The Planets
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A collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration.
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The Virtual Solar System
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A guide to the solar system for visitors featuring a scale model, interactive quiz, text, and images.
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Our Solar System in Pictures
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Pictures and quizzes about all the planets in the solar system. This site is especially useful to middle school students studying the solar system.
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