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Our Existenz

http://www.myexistenz.com/Ourexistenz2/Ourexistenz.html

Provides photographs and information on the planets of our solar system.

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Orrery: The Solar System in Action

http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/orrery.html

A concise tour containing numerous educational resources, and support for Spacetech's Orrery application.

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Orrery: Solar System Simulator

http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~kmcclary/

A Java applet that simulates gravitating masses. Features a working model with motions and sizes of 70 planets and moons to scale.

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Nova Celestia

http://www.novacelestia.com/space_art_solar_system.html

Provides overview and original illustrations of elements.

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Northeast Regional Planetary Data Center

http://www.geo.brown.edu/BrownNASADataCenter/Home.htm

Includes list of available image collections and how to obtain the data at the facility (no images are online).

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Gravity Calculator

http://www.gravitycalc.com/

Allows the user to perform various gravity calculations for the sun and planets based on Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation.

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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/

Protocols for naming planetary features, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union.

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Free Software for Planetary Science

http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html

Image processing browsers for Mariner 6, 7, 9, 10, Venera 15/16, and Viking Orbiter.

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Exploring the Planets

http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/

Sponsored by the National Air and Space Museum, contains many interesting facts about the planets, pictures, comparisons and a section dedicated to spacecraft.

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Computing Planetary Positions

http://stjarnhimlen.se/comp/ppcomp.html

A detailed online tutorial on how to compute planetary locations using math formulas.

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Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System

http://www.bobthealien.co.uk/

Informative tour of the planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids and comets in the Solar System and the stars and galaxies beyond. Also provides information about space exploration and astronomy.

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BBC Space: Solar System

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/

3D tour including videos with audio and text information on the Sun and the bodies orbiting around it. (Shockwave and Realplayer required)

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Astronomy 161: The Solar System

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/

Overview with historical background and basic astronomy concepts, details about planets, satellites, asteroids, comets and meteors.

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Astromaterials Curation

http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/

Features Moon rocks, Mars meteorites, and space exposed materials at NASA's curation office.

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An Astronomical Enigma

http://homepages.tesco.net/astroequation/

A mathematical demonstration of order in the Solar System showing that all the major orbits are inter-related.

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A Planet Pursuit

http://homepage.eircom.net/~aidanbarry/planetpursuit/

Pictures, facts and general information on the nine planets.

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