The Science of Planetary Years & Orbital Mechanics
How Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion determine age across our solar neighborhood.
Orbital Periods & Keplerian Physics
According to Kepler's Third Law ($P^2 = a^3$), a planet's orbital period $P$ squared is proportional to the cube of its semi-major axis $a$ from the Sun. As a result:
- Mercury: Orbit is 87.97 Earth days ($0.24$ Earth yrs) — you age ~4x faster.
- Venus: Orbit is 224.70 Earth days ($0.62$ Earth yrs).
- Mars: Orbit is 686.98 Earth days ($1.88$ Earth yrs).
- Jupiter: Orbit is 4,332.59 Earth days ($11.86$ Earth yrs).
- Saturn: Orbit is 10,759.22 Earth days ($29.45$ Earth yrs).
Counting Days to Your Next Planetary Birthday
ChronoAge calculates the remainder of your total alive days modulo each planet's orbital length to determine the exact number of Earth days until your next anniversary on that world.