new toy on web [OT unless you're into orbital calculation stuff]

Just for those of you who like to play with orbits of planets,
asteroids,
comets, whatnot.  :)

Mk

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Clark [mailto:rclark@LPL.Arizona.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 8:37 AM
> To: hart@stsci.edu
> Subject: neo toy on the web
> 
> (2) NEW ORBIT VISUALISATION TOOL ONLINE
> 
> >From Ron Baalke <baalke@jpl.nasa.gov>
> 
> A new Orbits section has been added to JPL's Near-Earth Object home
> page. The highlight is a cool visualization tool. It is an interactive
> 3D orbit viewer written in Java, and you can view the orbit of any
> asteroid or comet. You can rotate the orbits around and zoom in, move
> around the solar system and "play" the orbits backwards and forwards
> like a movie. It resides right here:
> 
> http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits
> 
> You'll have to select an object of interest first, by either entering
> the asteroid/comet's name (wildcards are allowed), or making a
> selection from the table of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids provided.
> 
> Ron Baalke