Web-based interactive 3D visualisation of asteroids

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Objective

The long-term goal of this project is to developed a web-based, data driven, 3-D interactive visualisation system tool to provide illustration of: 1) Major and small bodies’ movements in the solar system 2) Off-Earth mining illustration. www.traplan.xyz

Introduction

Currently, all available asteroids listed in NASA small bodies database are added into the system. The movements of these bodies are based on two-body system dynamics. You may use the “Data and Control” panel to display asteroids of interests - Or you may use the “Asteroid Clusters” panel to display a particular group of asteroids. When playing with these control bars, you can observe some interesting movements, clusters, etc.

The web site can be visited here. Asteroids Visualisation

Data and Control Panel

Asteroid Clusters