Your Place in Space

Your Place in Space

03Dynamics

Kepler’s laws

Eight orbits, one rule. True positions for the date below.

Each orbit is an ellipse — a stretched circle. The Sun sits off-center at a focus, not the middle.

Simulation time · UTC

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2025-01-01± 1 Earth year2027-01-01

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