Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1993 pp 477-481 | Cite as
A Public-Domain Asteroid Orbit Database
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Abstract
We are constructing a database of J2000.0 osculating elements for all asteroids that have reasonably calculable orbits, and to make it publicly accessible via anonymous ftp. The database will be a very dynamic one; it will change on a quasi-daily basis as new observations and orbits become available. At present, an incomplete version of the database is online. In this paper, we present and discuss sample records of asteroid orbital data as they might appear in more mature form.
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Orbital Element Orbit Determination Perturbation Scheme Julian Date Differential Correction
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