New Orbit Visualization Tool Online (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:32:18 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: New Orbit Visualization Tool Online

A new Orbits section has been added to JPL's Near-Earth Object home page.
The highlight is a cool visualization tool. It is an interactive 3D orbit
viewer written in Java, and you can view the orbit of any asteroid or
comet. You can rotate the orbits around and zoom in, move around
the solar system and "play" the orbits backwards and forwards
like a movie. It resides right here:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits

You'll have to select an object of interest first, by
either entering the asteroid/comet's name (wildcards are allowed),
or making a selection from the table of Potentially Hazardous
Asteroids provided.

Ron Baalke