Cornell SPIF
Orbit movie of Pluto and its moons, annotated
Animation illustrating orbits of Pluto, Charon, Nix, and Hydra about the system's barycenter. Derived from two Hubble Space Telescope images and a diagram of the orbits.
Names orbit with bodies.
Reprojected plane of orbits to face-on view, determined angles swept in the three days separating original images, made new frames based on date/angle. Each time step represents one Earth day.
Image 1: 15 May, 2005 hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/b/
Image 2: 18 May, 2005 hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/c/
Orbit diagram: hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/h/
Video created by R. Kline, Cornell University Department of Astronomy
Orbit movie of Pluto and its moons, annotated
Animation illustrating orbits of Pluto, Charon, Nix, and Hydra about the system's barycenter. Derived from two Hubble Space Telescope images and a diagram of the orbits.
Names orbit with bodies.
Reprojected plane of orbits to face-on view, determined angles swept in the three days separating original images, made new frames based on date/angle. Each time step represents one Earth day.
Image 1: 15 May, 2005 hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/b/
Image 2: 18 May, 2005 hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/c/
Orbit diagram: hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/19/image/h/
Video created by R. Kline, Cornell University Department of Astronomy