https://dspace1015.github.io/home/CountDownToNewYears.html Several years ago, I had the thought of seeing if I could make a program that would display the Earth along its orbit and show it cross a "finish line" once new years came. Over the past few years, I made the project in Desmos, Python's pygame, and last year in JavaScript with html. This year I finally uploaded my JavaScript project so that other people could see it, and I have put the link above. The orbits shown are as follows:________ Earth's Orbit - Green The Moon's orbit - Grey GEO synchronous orbits - outer dark blue GPS satellites - inner dark blue And The International Space Station's orbit - grey
This project is not in Scratch; it is on GitHub and runs in your web browser. I might one day make a 3D version in Scratch, but that might have to wait until next year. Note that the "finish line" that is shown is purely imaginary, there is no line in space that once crossed marks new years for everyone. Accounting for time zones, people around the earth experience new years over a ~24hour period, yet the earth crosses this "finish line" in a matter of minutes. This project is only meant to represent how fast the earth travels in its orbit and how far the Earth will travel (relative to the sun) from now until new years FOR YOU. Different time zones will experience new years at different times and thus will have different "finish lines", so my project displays the "finish line" for your specific time zone. Sorry if you prefer distance in km, however you are not out of luck, things are calculated in SI units and then converted to miles for the display. if you right click inspect and go to the console, then type "d", this variable stores the distance in km. This project is mostly finished so I don't intend to add an interface to switch units anytime soon.
