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OrbitViewer.NET 1.0

C# desktop implementation of OrbitViewer, an interactive Java applet that displays the orbit of small bodies (comets or asteroids) in the solar system in 3D.

Copyright © 2019 Luka Jurakovic

All Rights Reserved.

Origins

Original applet was created by Osamu Ajiki (AstroArts Inc.) in 1996. It was further modified by Ron Baalke (NASA/JPL) in 2000-2001.

Description

This is the initial version of OrbitViewer.NET. Most of it is just translated from Java to C#. The core codebase is mostly intact, just applied some C# conventions, renamings and formatting, with some minor changes.

Download

Program can be downloaded at following URL: https://jurakovic.github.io/

Run

Extract zip and run OrbitViewer.NET.exe. Program uses MPC format of orbital elements. Latest elements can be downloaded from MPC site, link provided below in Links section.

Release package contains two sample dat files.

comets.dat
asteroids.dat

Licence

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Links

Homepage https://jurakovic.github.io/

OrbitViewer Java Applet (AstroArts) https://www.astroarts.co.jp/products/orbitviewer/index.html

Center for Near Earth Object Studies - Orbits (NASA/JPL) https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/

Minor Planet Center: Orbital Elements (IAU) https://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/Ephemerides/Soft00.html