Orbit spirograph

 from Red Blob Games
19 Jan 2019

Inspired by John Carlos Baez’s post about the Pentagram of Venus[1]. This is the position of Venus relative to the Earth. I got distracted by fun spirograph style images.






Heliocentric?

I use Kepler’s Third Law to convert the orbital period to the distance from the sun.

Planet Orbit (days)
Mercury 89.9696
Venus 224.701
Apophis 322.7
Earth 364.2564
Mars 687
Ceres 1675.58
Jupiter 4332.59
Saturn 10759
Uranus 30688.5
Neptune 60182

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