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

docstring

SolarSystemPlanet

docstring

Functions

_q(c)

poliastro.bodies._q(c)
class poliastro.bodies.Body

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

docstring

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

Return str(self).

__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)
class poliastro.bodies.SolarSystemPlanet

Bases: Body

docstring

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.

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