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New Horizons mission

News and info on NASA's New Horizons space probe, currently on a 10 year flight to conduct flyby studies of Pluto and its moons in 2015.

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Gravity-Assist Orbit

Planetary exploration vessels like Voyager I and Voyager II made use of propulsion maneuvers which gained energy from the planets and moons they passed.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/doubal.html#c3

Solar System applet

Java animation showing the motion of the planets of the solar system, moons of Jupiter and two comets.

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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/french/faculty/gans/java/SolarApplet.html

My solar system

Build your own solar system in this flash simulation with stars, planets and moons, and see what weird and wonderful orbits you can create.

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http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/my-solar-system/my-solar-system.swf

Solar system visualiser

Visit this interactive site to explore the orbits of planets and their moons in our solar system and also in a wide selection of extrasolar planetary systems.

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http://janus.astro.umd.edu/SolarSystems/

De Mora Luminis

Measuring times of the eclipses of Jupiter's moons when Earth and Jupiter were in various positions gave evidence for light traveling at a finite speed. Includes a list of measurements of c made ...

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http://mathpages.com/rr/s3-03/3-03.htm

Tour of the solar system

Find out about the planets, moons and other bodies in our solar system.

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http://seasky.org/solar-system/solar-system-intro.html

The Nine Planets

Extensive overview of our solar system, covering history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of planets, moons, asteroids in our solar system, with many links.

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http://www.nineplanets.org/

Tycho Brahe

A biography of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601), who made a remarkable star catalogue of over 1000 stars, far more than any astronomer before him. He proved that comets are not objects in ...

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http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/index.html

Lunar science for kids

A NASA site with plenty of basic information about the moon and the space missions which set out to explore it.

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http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/kids/
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