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1 Summary
- 1.1 Graph
- 1.2 Data Source
2 Licensing

[edit] Summary

Orbits of Ceres and Mars. Generated by a program written by Eurocommuter.

[edit] Graph

Orbits
- Ceres in yellow
- For reference, Mars in red

The orbits plotted in brighter colours above the ecliptic and darker below.
Major axis drawn showing perihelion (q) and aphelion (Q)

Orientation
- The Sun in the centre.
- The yellow segment points toward the vernal point.
- View from the above (latitude ~ 5 deg) the ecliptic, longitude ~120)

[edit] Data Source

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

Description	The orbit of Ceres and Mars.
Source	Plotted by a program written by the User:Eurocommuter
Date	16 August 2006
Author	User:Eurocommuter
Permission	see Licence tag

[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".