Threejs Obrit Viewer for Comets / Asteroids

Been working on this one off and on for a while now.

Threejs based orbit viewer: https://catalina.lpl.arizona.edu/css-orbit-view

Has a lot of features. Easy to get started, just hit submit to view the first interstellar object ever found. 1I/Oumuamua.

You can share links that will plot objects.

Here is interstellar comet 2I/Borisov:

https://catalina.lpl.arizona.edu/css-orbit-view?Namev=2I/Borisov&JDTv=2458600.5&av=-0.8443731761644145&Mv=0&ev=3.3835756&Iv=43.99379&Periv=208.98541&Nodev=308.20581&Pv=0&qv=2.0126273&Tv=2458825.90006

If you know the designation of the object, you can use the MPC # box.

2019 WW4 for a newly found PHA
C/2017 K2 for a parabolic comet
1P for Halley’s comet

Click “From MPCORB”

On my laptop, decent GPU, I can get about 500 objects smoothly animating.

Cheers,

David

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Hi David,
nice work. definitely could be useful for professionals.
I was wondering, any other way to find out planet’s alignments?
I was trying to scroll and find when they have aligned in the past or when they would in the future… but gave up pretty quickly

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