Orbits of Pluto (red) and Neptune (blue); ecliptic view. Plotted by a program written by
Eurocommuter.
Date
16 April 2006 (original upload date)
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Orbits
Pluto in red (just a reference)
Neptune in blue (just a reference)
Orbits plotted in brighter colours above the ecliptic and darker below.
Major axis drawn showing perihelia (q) and aphelia (Q).
Bodies
Colours and albedos illustrated
Relative sizes not shown due to a significant size difference
The positions as of April 2006.
Orientation
The Sun in the centre of the graph.
View from the ecliptic plane, from the direction of the descending node
Data Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets[1]
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Orbits of Pluto (red) and Neptune (blue); ecliptic view. Plotted by a program written by
Eurocommuter.
Date
16 April 2006 (original upload date)
Source
No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims).
Author
No machine-readable author provided.
Eurocommuter~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).
Other versions
English
French
Russian
Graph
Orbits
Pluto in red (just a reference)
Neptune in blue (just a reference)
Orbits plotted in brighter colours above the ecliptic and darker below.
Major axis drawn showing perihelia (q) and aphelia (Q).
Bodies
Colours and albedos illustrated
Relative sizes not shown due to a significant size difference
The positions as of April 2006.
Orientation
The Sun in the centre of the graph.
View from the ecliptic plane, from the direction of the descending node
Data Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets[1]
Licensing
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the
Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue
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share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the
same or compatible license as the original.
This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL
licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue
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