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🪐 Mechanical Orrery — 2D Kepler Orbits and Equal-Area Law

2D companion of the mechanical orrery: Kepler-equation orbits for six planets and an adjustable test body, equal-area wedges, a log-log period-radius graph and an independent leapfrog check of Newtonian gravity.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
Mechanical Orrery — 2D Kepler Orbits and Equal-Area Law ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the mechanical orrery: Kepler-equation orbits for six planets and an adjustable test body, equal-area wedges, a log-log period-radius graph and an independent leapfrog check of Newtonian gravity.

Mechanical OrreryOrbital MechanicsKepler LawsGravitation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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