🪨 Small Solar System Bodies

Asteroid Belt DynamicsNewWatch thousands of asteroids orbit the Sun and see the Kirkwood gaps carved out by Jupiter's… Comet Tail FormationNewWatch a comet's curved dust tail and straight ion tail form and grow as it swings around the… Kuiper Belt ExplorerNewExplore thousands of icy Kuiper Belt Objects orbiting beyond Neptune, including Pluto-like… Oort Cloud & Long-Period CometsNewWatch passing stars gravitationally perturb icy bodies in the distant Oort Cloud, sending… Protoplanetary Disk & Planet FormationNewWatch dust accrete into planetesimals and clear gaps in a rotating protoplanetary disk… Gravitational Slingshot — Gravity AssistNewWatch a spacecraft's speed and path change during a gravity assist flyby of a moving planet,… Exoplanet Classification ExplorerNewAdjust mass, radius and orbital distance to plot a hypothetical exoplanet and see it… Habitable Zone CalculatorNewAdjust star mass and planet orbital distance to see the circumstellar habitable zone shift,… Trojan Asteroids & Lagrange PointsNewInteractive 3D simulation of Trojan asteroids librating around the L4 and L5 Lagrange points… Comet Outgassing & Coma FormationNewInteractive 3D simulation of a comet nucleus sublimating as it nears the Sun — real…