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Gravity & Orbits

Launch stars, planets and moons and watch real orbits form under Newton's law of gravity.

This is real Newtonian gravity, not an animation. Pick a preset or drag on the canvas to launch a body, then read off its mass, distance, orbital speed and Kepler period in real units.

Bodies: 0 · Time: 0.00 yr
Drag to launch a body

Presets

Selected body

Tap a body to see its mass, distance, speed and orbital period.

SystemStable

Energy drift: 0.000%

Constants & sources

G = 4π² AU³·M⁻¹·yr⁻²

1 AU = 1.496×10¹¹ m

1 M = 1.989×10³⁰ kg

1 AU/yr = 4.741 km/s

T² = a³/M (Kepler)

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