AUTOSTAR INFORMATION Last updated: 16 December 2001

Converting Asteroid Elements to Autostar

Sent:	Sunday, December 16, 2001 12:13:17
From:	rseymour@wolfenet.com (richard seymour)
If you visit Harvard's Asteroid elements pages, or see them published in
astronomical "circular", it's kinda hard to see how to get them into the
Autostar.

Here's the key.

Here is/are the "classic" layout of the Harvard Asteroid (Minor Bodies)
elements:

1998 WT24
Epoch 2001 Oct. 18.0 TT = JDT 2452200.5 MPC
M 115.95077     (2000.0)                  P           Q
n 1.62000234    Peri. 167.37393     -0.34883758 +0.92850024
a 0.7180019     Node 82.10006       -0.87063523 -0.27080165
e 0.4184513     Incl. 7.38277       -0.34685248 -0.25407435
P 0.61          H 18.0              G 0.15       U 3

What the Autostar wants are:

Name: 1998 wt24
Epoch: 18-oct-2001
e:   Eccentricity: 0.418451 
a:   Semi Major Axis: 0.718002 
Incl: Incliniation: 7.3828
Node: Lon Asc Node: 82.1001
Peri: Arg of Per: 167.3739
M:   Mean Anomaly: 115.9508
H:   Abs Mag: 18
G:   Mag Slope: 0.15 

hope this helps...
--dick

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