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Summary
The motion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90482_Orcus" class="extiw" title="en:90482 Orcus">Orcus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto" class="extiw" title="en:Pluto">Pluto</a> in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/tutorials/rotatingframe.html">rotating frame</a> with a period equal to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune" class="extiw" title="en:Neptune">Neptune</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orbital_period" class="extiw" title="en:orbital period">orbital period</a>. (Neptune is held stationary.) Orcus is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/plutino" class="extiw" title="en:plutino">plutino</a> in a 2:3 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant_trans-Neptunian_object" class="extiw" title="en:Resonant trans-Neptunian object">mean motion resonance with Neptune</a>. Pluto is grey and Orcus is red. Neptune is the white (stationary) dot at 5 o'clock. Uranus is blue, Saturn yellow, and Jupiter red. There are 41 frames each having 3*164.8 years (3 times Neptunes orbital period).
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| current | 08:39, 15 January 2017 | | 749 × 527 (413 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>The motion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90482_Orcus" class="extiw" title="en:90482 Orcus">Orcus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto" class="extiw" title="en:Pluto">Pluto</a> in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/tutorials/rotatingframe.html">rotating frame</a> with a period equal to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune" class="extiw" title="en:Neptune">Neptune</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orbital_period" class="extiw" title="en:orbital period">orbital period</a>. (Neptune is held stationary.) Orcus is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/plutino" class="extiw" title="en:plutino">plutino</a> in a 2:3 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant_trans-Neptunian_object" class="extiw" title="en:Resonant trans-Neptunian object">mean motion resonance with Neptune</a>. Pluto is grey and Orcus is red. Neptune is the white (stationary) dot at 5 o'clock. Uranus is blue, Saturn yellow, and Jupiter red. There are 41 frames each having 3*164.8 years (3 times Neptunes orbital period). </p> |
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