Venus, Earth, Mars and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA)*

Slider control adjusts the simulation speed.

12-10-2014


     

*Objects are not to scale


Using orbital data provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, this visualization presents the trajectories of 50 potentially hazardous asteroids. A slider bar controls the speed of the animation. Buttons hide or show the labels and the traced trajectories.

Sources of data and equations applied in the model:

  1. Orbital elements
  2. Orbital periods
  3. Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
  4. Orbital Mechanics: Theory and Applications