The Nine Planets

The Nine Planets

The Nine Planets, a multimedia tour of the Solar System by Bill Arnett, was one of the first examples of multimedia websites. It first appeared on the World Wide Web in 1994 and, as was common for high traffic websites at the time, was widely mirrored. It contains encyclopedic information about the Solar System with a page for each of the major bodies illustrated with photographs, mostly from NASA. The nine planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

After the new classification of Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006, the website has written the title as "The Nine8 Planets".

Awards

The site's numerous awards include: [http://bill.nineplanets.org/vanity/index.html]

*1995 PC Magazine's Top 100 websites
*2002 Scientific American's Sci/Tech web award for astronomy and astrophysics [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00091068-8E58-1CFB-93F6809EC5880000]

External links

* [http://www.nineplanets.org/ The Nine Planets] , by Bill Arnett


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