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1 Summary
- 1.1 Graph
- 1.2 Data Source
2 Licensing

[edit] Summary

Orbits of Pluto (red) and Neptune (blue); ecliptic view. Plotted by a program written by Eurocommuter.

[edit] Graph

Orbits
- Pluto in red
- Neptune in blue
Orbits plotted in brighter colours above the ecliptic and darker below.
Major axis drawn showing perihelia (q) and aphelia (Q).
Bodies
- Colours and albedos illustrated
- Relative sizes not shown due to a significant size difference
- The positions as of April 2006.
Orientation
- The Sun in the centre of the graph.
- View from the ecliptic plane, from the direction of the descending node

[edit] Data Source

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets [1]

[edit] Licensing

I, the author of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".