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I'm working on a novel and the action has moved off Earth and into the asteroid belt. I've been using a few websites and apps - notably AstroGrav, Stellarium, and Atlas InfoGraphics - to figure out where objects are in the solar system at the future date of the novel. But I can't find a way to accurately calculate distances between objects. So, I know how far out Ceres 1 is from the Sun, and how far Earth is for example, but trig fails to calculate the distance between them without angles and the apps don't give that value. I could plot-paper for a single date, but that's cumbersome and does not scale for the time frames I need.
Does anyone know of an orrery type app that calculates inter-object distances between objects at an arbitrary date?
Does anyone know of an orrery type app that calculates inter-object distances between objects at an arbitrary date?