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☄️ Comet Orbit, Coma and Tails: 2D Top-Down View

Top-down Canvas 2D model of a comet on a Kepler orbit: sublimation-driven coma, curved dust tail and straight ion tail pushed by solar radiation pressure (beta), with Earth, snow-line and Jupiter reference rings. Drag the comet to change its orbit.

Space & Astronomy2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
2d-cosmic-comet-simulation ↗ Open standalone
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Top-down Canvas 2D model of a comet on a Kepler orbit: sublimation-driven coma, curved dust tail and straight ion tail pushed by solar radiation pressure (beta), with Earth, snow-line and Jupiter reference rings. Drag the comet to change its orbit.

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

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