Can you find the time?

I need a program that will tell me the positions of the inner planets on a given day in the 21st century.  Specifically, I have people on the Earth and Luna, in cislunar space, and enroute to Mars.  The distances between them can be as small as fractional light-seconds and as great as light-minutes.  Putting aside for a minute the writing challenge of relating a conversation among several people with varying time delays -- does NASA or anybody have a program that will output those distances (or just positions) at a given moment?  Or is it computationally more difficult than it looks?
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Published on June 24, 2016 08:14
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Shane Phillips I have used this website to find location of planets on my birthday (1963) and at other events. You can rotate and zoom once the date is sent. They have an app you can put on computer or iphone/ipad but I have only used the website.

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

Hope this works for you.


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