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1. wanick · 1790710695 · focus · HN ↗

   Author here. It's a browser view of the Solar System at real scale, with its current state, plus the objects around Earth from the CelesTrak catalog.

   Data: CelesTrak TLEs (SGP4), asteroids and comets from JPL SBDB, spacecraft positions from JPL Horizons. Updated daily.

   Rendering is WebGL2, orbit propagation runs in web workers. The asteroid set (~30 MB) loads in the background.

   The time slider runs forwards and backwards; satellites appear and disappear by launch date.

   1. sebmellen · 1790780362 · focus · HN ↗

      This asteroid is missing FWIW <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ssd.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;sbdb_lookup.html#&#x2F;?sstr=20031689" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ssd.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;sbdb_lookup.html#&#x2F;?sstr=20031...

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