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I'm amused

It's been at least 3 days since first news articles about it appeared, and there's not a single image of its orbit relative to Earth

best I can find it https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/09/2025-PN7-NASA-Sep-7-2025-e1... showing orbit relative to Sun

Is there really no consumer program to show orbit relative to Earth? Can't you just shove orbital parameters into Universe Sandbox and press "center camera on" Earth?

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Here you go, here is its orbit from 1900 to 2100 in the earth's rotating frame, sun is at -1 on the x axis.

https://dahlend.github.io/2025_PN7_Orbit_1900-2100.png

Its hanging out for a while near us.

Shameless plug for my software I used compute it:

https://github.com/dahlend/kete

Thank you!

This is excellent, thank you.

Maybe you can get a Kerbal Space mod to add it?

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