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Which will destroy the Earth first: the Sun or Jupiter?
The sun is expected to grow in brightness over time, slowly heating the Earth until the oceans evaporate, leaving the planet uninhabitable.
Jupiter is the source of the largest perturbations to Earth'...
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Simulate earth, moon, sun constellation with dates
I would like to simulate the three object distance, specifically the distance of the moon to both, sun and earth for further investigation into tide prediction.
What would be a good starting point ...
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Look up current positions and velocities of solar system objects
I am working on an orbital dynamics code and, for fun, I would like to model the Sun-Earth-Moon system with my code. I can look up the masses of each object just fine, as well as average distances ...
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