The Solar System Sim

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A scale representation of all eight planets plus Pluto and their moon systems.The axil tilt of the planets, except for Pluto, have been represented(Though they do not rotate).One Blender Unit = 62,137.1 Miles (100,000 kilometers). All scaling values are for the Radii.Note that the Planet's orbits themselves are not represented, as they would be far too big for blender to handle.All planets and most of the moons have textures(Some moons have not been scanned fully by probes,and simply have a diffuse shader with their average known color), and are set up for Cycles.You can get really nice renders right away.All moons with diameters larger than 62.1 Miles are represented, all the spherical ones have actual UV spheres.The non spherical ones (Below about 310 mi.) have empties.One Second(24 frames) equals one Earth Day. Play the animation, and watch the moons move. The Animation is infinite, the 10000 frames is just arbitrary.The sun brightness is not relative to planetary distances or anything. It is just there to illuminate the planets.Saved under Blender 2.62.Textures Credit The Celestia Motherlode and Project, Nasa Blue Marble, and textures.forrest.cz.Saturn Ring textures are by Björn Jónsson, http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/data/s_rings/index.htmlhttp://vimeo.com/36615612