Sun
Mercury's Orbit
• 88 days
Venus's Orbit
• 225 days
Earth's Orbit
• 1 year
Mars' Orbit
• 687 days
Jupiter's Orbit
• 11.86 yrs.
Saturn's Orbit
• 29.45 yrs.
Uranus' Orbit
• 84.0 yrs.
Neptune's Orbit
• 164.8 yrs.
Pluto's Orbit
• 247.94 yrs.
Orbit paths, planet sizes and Sun size are not to scale. Orbit speeds have the correct ratio between each planet.
For instance, the planet Earth takes 1 year to orbit the Sun. In this model, it revolves around the Sun within 1 second
(1 second = 1 year for time scaled comparisons). Jupiter orbits the Sun once in 11.86 years,
thus it will orbit the Sun once within 11.86 seconds. All orbits are scaled accordingly providing realistic comparisons of orbital times.
FYI: Yes, I'm aware that pluto is not classified as a true planet,
but I put it there because many of us like to see it included with the rest of the planets. Enjoy!
Factoid:
You might find this interesting, especially those who are familiar with HTML & CSS code. This web page does NOT use
any images to represent the planets & the Sun (NO images anywhere on this page, NOT the title bar, the orbits, and
NOT even the lines pointing to the orbits), and does NOT employ the use of JavaScript to move the planets around the
Sun. Everything is displayed via a system of DIV tags & CSS and CSS does all the animation.
FYI: The size of this box also grows and shrinks via CSS controls. In past times, Web site designers needed to use
JavaScript to execute this same effect, but with the growing CSS code available, some of these actions can be handed over to CSS. Nice!
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