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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 2 Jun 2017 13:05:00
Message: <web.59319a0c4e850994c437ac910@news.povray.org>
Just found this:
Haven't yet watched the POV-Ray animations....

http://meikeltroniks.de/DLR-ALT/AG_PlanPhys/SESAME/Gall_e.html


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 2 Jun 2017 14:21:24
Message: <5931aca4$1@news.povray.org>
On 6/2/2017 6:02 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Just found this:
> Haven't yet watched the POV-Ray animations....
>
> http://meikeltroniks.de/DLR-ALT/AG_PlanPhys/SESAME/Gall_e.html
>


Hmm! I'm getting a lot of this:

404
Das angeforderte Dokument ist nicht vorhanden.
The requested URL could not be found.

And the one that did download wouldn't display, even in VLC. :(

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Regards
     Stephen


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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 5 Jun 2017 09:45:00
Message: <web.5935602a4e850994c437ac910@news.povray.org>
Looks like someone else took a crack at plotting lots of asteroid data in
POV-Ray a while back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crAGTOHWqNY&feature=youtu.be


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 5 Jun 2017 10:40:53
Message: <59356d75$1@news.povray.org>
On 6/5/2017 2:44 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Looks like someone else took a crack at plotting lots of asteroid data in
> POV-Ray a while back:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crAGTOHWqNY&feature=youtu.be
>

Not only that I recognise the three subscribers to the channel.


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     Stephen


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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 5 Jun 2017 15:40:01
Message: <web.5935b2b24e850994c437ac910@news.povray.org>
I thought you might be interested in :

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/gear-ratios-to-gear-tooth-count.803389/

as well as the link to the gear train calculators:

http://www.scientific601.altervista.org/gear.html

(Which was what I was trying to describe a while back)


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 5 Jun 2017 17:05:21
Message: <5935c791$1@news.povray.org>
On 6/5/2017 8:36 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> I thought you might be interested in :
>

I am, I am. But I might need to get Thomas to archive all these sites. ;-)

> https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/gear-ratios-to-gear-tooth-count.803389/
>

Any thread that talks about Meccano sets (or an Erector set for US 
readers) is okay by me. :)


> as well as the link to the gear train calculators:
>
> http://www.scientific601.altervista.org/gear.html
>
> (Which was what I was trying to describe a while back)
>


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     Stephen


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 6 Jun 2017 02:51:21
Message: <593650e9$1@news.povray.org>
On 5-6-2017 23:05, Stephen wrote:
> On 6/5/2017 8:36 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
>> I thought you might be interested in :
>>
>
> I am, I am. But I might need to get Thomas to archive all these sites. ;-)

:-)

I am just sitting back and watching the show...

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Thomas


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 6 Jun 2017 11:25:13
Message: <5936c959$1@news.povray.org>
On 6/6/2017 7:51 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 5-6-2017 23:05, Stephen wrote:
>> On 6/5/2017 8:36 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
>>> I thought you might be interested in :
>>>
>>
>> I am, I am. But I might need to get Thomas to archive all these sites.
>> ;-)
>
> :-)
>
> I am just sitting back and watching the show...
>


It is worth watching IMO

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Regards
     Stephen


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From: Maetes
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 4 Feb 2026 05:15:00
Message: <web.69831b544e8509943529ff2530225ff5@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Further work:
>
> Over the weekend I worked out the REAL way to do orbital inclinations, and
> processed the data for ~655,000 minor plants from:
> http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/MPCORB.html
>
> You can clearly see why it's called the asteroid BELT.  :O


Nice animation, but I don't really understand, what is happening in the
animation. Where ist Earth, where Jupiter, what changes over time?

ma


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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Re: Solar System
Date: 4 Feb 2026 11:00:00
Message: <web.69836c064e85099498de4e8625979125@news.povray.org>
"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> Nice animation, but I don't really understand, what is happening in the
> animation. Where ist Earth, where Jupiter, what changes over time?

All of the planets are pictured stationary in their orbits
(I suppose I did that for simplicity at the time)
All of the white objects are the 655,000+ "minor planets" in the asteroid belt
getting animated over the span of 1 year

- BE


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