HyperOrbit

Designed for young explorers. Focuses on spatial order, classification, and visual intuition:

• The Great Planet Parade: Arrange the 8 planets in order from the Sun using the mnemonic "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles". Distinguish inner rocky worlds from outer gas giants.
• Day & Night Flashlight: Rotate a 3D Earth globe with city pins (Lagos, London, Tokyo, New York) to see how axial spin creates day and night.
• The Cosmic Scale Balancer: Experience how 1,300 Earths fit inside Jupiter and 1.3 million Earths fit inside the Sun!

Aligned with NERDC Basic Science for JSS students exploring forces, scales, and deep space bodies:

• Scale of the Solar System (AU): Understand the Astronomical Unit (~150 million km) and gravitational orbital glue.
• Eclipse Alignment Sandbox: Trace light rays and cast the dark Umbra and partial Penumbra cones for Solar and Lunar eclipses.
• Comet Tail Deflector: Discover why comet tails ALWAYS point away from the Sun regardless of flight vector, pushed by the continuous Solar Wind.
• The Mystery Planet Dossier: Identify planets from sensor telemetry (e.g. why Venus's runaway greenhouse atmosphere makes it hotter than Mercury).

Rigorous physics simulations directly testing core WAEC, NECO, and JAMB Physics topics:

• Kepler’s 3 Laws of Planetary Motion: Vary eccentricity ($e$) and semi-major axis ($a$). Watch orbital velocity peak at perihelion, equal area sectors sweep in equal times, and verify $T^2 \propto a^3$.
• Newtonian Orbital Insertion: Fire thrusters to lock a probe into a circular orbit at $v_o = \sqrt{GM/r}$. Beware of falling below circular speed (suborbital crash) or exceeding escape velocity $v_e = \sqrt{2} v_o$.
• Solar Dynamics & CME Shield: Explore thermonuclear core fusion ($4^1H \to ^4He + \text{energy}$), magnetic sunspots, solar flares, and Earth's magnetosphere auroral shielding.