Hi!

> - Where is mercury ?

Mercury is where it belongs: in *real* space! :)

> - Uranus and Pluto are missing

"Oh noooo, I've destroyed 2 planets!"
<looking through a telescope>
"You are wrong -- they are where they have to be!" :-D


<serious mode>

> - Jupiter has some 13 or 14 satellites

According to "Sterne und Weltraum"-Special 7: "Monde" (Oct. 2002) about
moons, 101 moons were known in the solar system at that time, jupiter
has 39 (more than half of them found 2000 and 2001, diameter 2 to 7 km),
saturn has 30. Probably some more have been found since then, and Cassini
(launched oct. 1997) will investigate the moons of saturn (beginning next
summer) and surely find more moons of saturn.

You have overlooked that the most important satellite is missing: earth's
moon! The tiny dot near the "earth" is *not* the moon, it's *me* (i.e.
Sputnik) -- see attached picture!

As I wrote in p.g, my picture was a quick easter joke (only a WIP: the
orbits aren't egg-shaped yet, two antennas of the sputnik aren't attached
to it's main body and I'm not satisfied with many of the textures. I'll
occasionally work on this to finish it before easter next year). So I
wanted to make a funny picture, not a realistic solar system.

Realism would mean to have a huge picture with single-pixel planets:

(mean distance of mercury and sun) : (mean distance of pluto and sun)
= 57.9E6 km : 5900E6 km
(roughly) = 1 : 100

(diameter of pluto) : (mean diameter of pluto orbit)
= 1530 km : 11.8E9 km
(roughly) = 1 : 8,000,000

So pluto in a +W8000000 picture of the solar system would have a diameter
of only 1 pixel!


   Sputnik

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