poliastro.bodies

Bodies of the Solar System.

Contains some predefined bodies of the Solar System:

  • Sun (☉)

  • Earth (♁)

  • Moon (☾)

  • Mercury (☿)

  • Venus (♀)

  • Mars (♂)

  • Jupiter (♃)

  • Saturn (♄)

  • Uranus (⛢)

  • Neptune (♆)

  • Pluto (♇)

and a way to define new bodies (Body class).

Data references can be found in constants

Module Contents

Classes

Body

Built-in immutable sequence.

SolarSystemPlanet

Built-in immutable sequence.

Attributes

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Pluto

Moon

class poliastro.bodies.Body

Bases: namedtuple('_Body', ['parent', 'k', 'name', 'symbol', 'R', 'R_polar', 'R_mean', 'rotational_period', 'J2', 'J3', 'mass'])

Built-in immutable sequence.

If no argument is given, the constructor returns an empty tuple. If iterable is specified the tuple is initialized from iterable’s items.

If the argument is a tuple, the return value is the same object.

__slots__ = []
property angular_velocity(self)
__str__(self)

Return str(self).

__reduce__(self)

Helper for pickle.

__repr__(self)

Return repr(self).

classmethod from_parameters(cls, parent, k, name, symbol, R, **kwargs)
classmethod from_relative(cls, reference, parent, k, name, symbol=None, R=0, **kwargs)
__add__()

Return self+value.

__contains__()

Return key in self.

__delattr__()

Implement delattr(self, name).

__dir__()

Default dir() implementation.

__eq__()

Return self==value.

__format__()

Default object formatter.

__ge__()

Return self>=value.

__getattribute__()

Return getattr(self, name).

__getitem__()

Return self[key].

__getnewargs__()
__gt__()

Return self>value.

__hash__()

Return hash(self).

__iter__()

Implement iter(self).

__le__()

Return self<=value.

__len__()

Return len(self).

__lt__()

Return self<value.

__mul__()

Return self*value.

__ne__()

Return self!=value.

__reduce_ex__()

Helper for pickle.

__rmul__()

Return value*self.

__setattr__()

Implement setattr(self, name, value).

__sizeof__()

Size of object in memory, in bytes.

__subclasshook__()

Abstract classes can override this to customize issubclass().

This is invoked early on by abc.ABCMeta.__subclasscheck__(). It should return True, False or NotImplemented. If it returns NotImplemented, the normal algorithm is used. Otherwise, it overrides the normal algorithm (and the outcome is cached).

count()

Return number of occurrences of value.

index()

Return first index of value.

Raises ValueError if the value is not present.

class poliastro.bodies.SolarSystemPlanet

Bases: Body

Built-in immutable sequence.

If no argument is given, the constructor returns an empty tuple. If iterable is specified the tuple is initialized from iterable’s items.

If the argument is a tuple, the return value is the same object.

__slots__ = []
plot(self, epoch=None, label=None, use_3d=False, interactive=False, plane=Planes.EARTH_ECLIPTIC)

Plots the body orbit.

Parameters
  • epoch (astropy.time.Time, optional) – Epoch of current position.

  • label (str, optional) – Label for the orbit, defaults to empty.

  • use_3d (bool, optional) – Produce a 3D plot, default to False.

  • interactive (bool, optional) – Produce an interactive (rather than static) image of the orbit, default to False. This option requires Plotly properly installed and configured for your environment.

  • plane (Planes) – Reference plane of the coordinates.

property angular_velocity(self)
__str__(self)

Return str(self).

__reduce__(self)

Helper for pickle.

__repr__(self)

Return repr(self).

classmethod from_parameters(cls, parent, k, name, symbol, R, **kwargs)
classmethod from_relative(cls, reference, parent, k, name, symbol=None, R=0, **kwargs)
__add__()

Return self+value.

__contains__()

Return key in self.

__delattr__()

Implement delattr(self, name).

__dir__()

Default dir() implementation.

__eq__()

Return self==value.

__format__()

Default object formatter.

__ge__()

Return self>=value.

__getattribute__()

Return getattr(self, name).

__getitem__()

Return self[key].

__getnewargs__()
__gt__()

Return self>value.

__hash__()

Return hash(self).

__iter__()

Implement iter(self).

__le__()

Return self<=value.

__len__()

Return len(self).

__lt__()

Return self<value.

__mul__()

Return self*value.

__ne__()

Return self!=value.

__reduce_ex__()

Helper for pickle.

__rmul__()

Return value*self.

__setattr__()

Implement setattr(self, name, value).

__sizeof__()

Size of object in memory, in bytes.

__subclasshook__()

Abstract classes can override this to customize issubclass().

This is invoked early on by abc.ABCMeta.__subclasscheck__(). It should return True, False or NotImplemented. If it returns NotImplemented, the normal algorithm is used. Otherwise, it overrides the normal algorithm (and the outcome is cached).

count()

Return number of occurrences of value.

index()

Return first index of value.

Raises ValueError if the value is not present.

poliastro.bodies.Sun
poliastro.bodies.Mercury
poliastro.bodies.Venus
poliastro.bodies.Earth
poliastro.bodies.Mars
poliastro.bodies.Jupiter
poliastro.bodies.Saturn
poliastro.bodies.Uranus
poliastro.bodies.Neptune
poliastro.bodies.Pluto
poliastro.bodies.Moon