Solar System Objects - Revision history

Ruediger: MPC List download link updated

2011-11-13T17:41:19Z

MPC List download link updated

Ruediger: /* Lists */

2011-11-13T17:39:41Z

Lists

Ruediger: MPC List download link updated

2011-11-13T17:38:26Z

MPC List download link updated

Daggerstab: moved Comets in solar system to Solar System Objects over redirect: this is the name of the page

2011-10-09T13:35:52Z

moved Comets in solar system to Solar System Objects over redirect: this is the name of the page

Vargas1224: moved Solar System Objects to Comets in solar system

2011-09-19T16:41:32Z

moved Solar System Objects to Comets in solar system

Ruediger: MPCORB file updated and described

2011-04-24T17:22:49Z

MPCORB file updated and described

Daggerstab at 18:54, 14 January 2011

2011-01-14T18:54:59Z

Ruediger: MPC stopped producing the source file, so updating the MPC ssystem.ini is currently suspended

2011-01-13T01:50:21Z

MPC stopped producing the source file, so updating the MPC ssystem.ini is currently suspended

Barrykgerdes: /* Lists */

2010-11-06T21:03:01Z

Lists

Daggerstab: /* Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) */

2010-10-10T15:48:52Z

Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin)

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 ||Aditional textures and comets with ssystem.ini|| [http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/stellariumtextures.ZIP here] || 2010-08-17|| An alternative set of textures for the texture folder along with a corresponding ssystem.ini file containing a selection of comets for the data folder.
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-||Complete MPC List|| [http://it-solutions.schultz.ch/images/content/schultz.ch/it-solutions/stellarium/minor-planet-center.ssystem.ini.zip here] || 2008-07-01 (updated monthly) || MINOR PLANET CENTER ORBIT DATABASE (MPCORB). This file contains published orbital elements for all numbered and unnumbered multi-opposition minor planets for which it is possible to make reasonable predictions. (See the [[#MPC_list|note]] below)
+||Complete MPC List|| [http://it-solutions.schultz.ch/images/schultz.ch/it-solutions/stellarium/minor-planet-center.ssystem.ini.zip here] || 2008-07-01 (updated monthly) || MINOR PLANET CENTER ORBIT DATABASE (MPCORB). This file contains published orbital elements for all numbered and unnumbered multi-opposition minor planets for which it is possible to make reasonable predictions. (See the [[#MPC_list|note]] below)
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 ||Aditional textures and comets with ssystem.ini|| [http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/stellariumtextures.ZIP here] || 2010-08-17|| An alternative set of textures for the texture folder along with a corresponding ssystem.ini file containing a selection of comets for the data folder.
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-||Complete MPC List|| [http://it-solutions.schultz.ch/images/content/schultz.ch/stellarium/minor-planet-center.ssystem.ini.zip here] || 2008-07-01 (updated monthly) || MINOR PLANET CENTER ORBIT DATABASE (MPCORB). This file contains published orbital elements for all numbered and unnumbered multi-opposition minor planets for which it is possible to make reasonable predictions. (See the [[#MPC_list|note]] below)
+||Complete MPC List|| [http://it-solutions.schultz.ch/images/content/schultz.ch/it-solutions/stellarium/minor-planet-center.ssystem.ini.zip here] || 2008-07-01 (updated monthly) || MINOR PLANET CENTER ORBIT DATABASE (MPCORB). This file contains published orbital elements for all numbered and unnumbered multi-opposition minor planets for which it is possible to make reasonable predictions. (See the [[#MPC_list|note]] below)
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 ||Aditional textures and comets with ssystem.ini|| [http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/stellariumtextures.ZIP here] || 2010-08-17|| An alternative set of textures for the texture folder along with a corresponding ssystem.ini file containing a selection of comets for the data folder.
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-||Complete MPC List|| [http://www.schultz.ch/images/content/schultz.ch/stellarium.org/minor-planet-center.ssystem.ini.zip here] || 2008-07-01 (updated monthly) || MINOR PLANET CENTER ORBIT DATABASE (MPCORB). This file contains published orbital elements for all numbered and unnumbered multi-opposition minor planets for which it is possible to make reasonable predictions. (See the [[#MPC_list|note]] below)
+||Complete MPC List|| [http://it-solutions.schultz.ch/images/content/schultz.ch/stellarium/minor-planet-center.ssystem.ini.zip here] || 2008-07-01 (updated monthly) || MINOR PLANET CENTER ORBIT DATABASE (MPCORB). This file contains published orbital elements for all numbered and unnumbered multi-opposition minor planets for which it is possible to make reasonable predictions. (See the [[#MPC_list|note]] below)
 |}

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 ===Notes===
 * '''ssystem.ini structure:''' Your ssystem.ini file must contain all bodies referenced as parent bodies of objects in your ssystem.ini file - you can't say that the moon is in orbit around Earth, and then not have an Earth body - Stellarium will crash if you do this.
-* <span id="MPC_list">'''the MPC list:'''</span> The current version of Stellarium is not designed to handle the complete list of objects by the Minor Planet Center. So please use this file to copy-paste your preferred objects into your own ssystem.ini file. This list is (automatically) updated regularly to reflect the quickly growing number of known dwarf planets and other small bodies of the solar system. Currently, the (unpacked) file is 140 MB (and growing), so make sure you have an editor which can handle files that large ;-)
+* <span id="MPC_list">'''the MPC list:'''</span> The current version of Stellarium is not designed to handle the complete list of objects by the Minor Planet Center. So please use this file to copy-paste your preferred objects into your own ssystem.ini file. This list is (automatically) updated regularly to reflect the quickly growing number of known dwarf planets and other small bodies of the solar system. Currently, the (unpacked) file is 140 MB (and growing), so make sure you have an editor which can handle files that large ;-). At present MPCORB is not available via anon-ftp on MPC site, so the updates are currently not fully automatic.
-As the MPC currently does not update this database, we are unable to provide the most recent files. The latest available data is dated feb-12-2010. As soon as MPC will continue the service, we will also restart the monthly updates again.
 ==Single objects==

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	Solar System objects are defined in the ''ssystem.ini'' file in the data directory. It can be extended to contain comets and asteroids. Here are a few extended ssystem.ini files which you can use. If you want just some of the bodies from one file and some from another, you will have to copy and paste the relevant sections of the various files together into your own ssystem.ini file.		Solar System objects are defined in the ''ssystem.ini'' file in the data directory. It can be extended to contain comets and asteroids. Here are a few extended ssystem.ini files which you can use. If you want just some of the bodies from one file and some from another, you will have to copy and paste the relevant sections of the various files together into your own ssystem.ini file.

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 ||Selected asteroids|| [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/asteroids.zip here] || 2008-02-17 (corrected) || Some bright and/or large asteroids.
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-||Aditional textures and comets with ssystem.ini|| [http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/stellariumtexture.ZIP here] || 2010-08-17|| An alternative set of textures for the texture folder along with a corresponding ssystem.ini file containing a selection of comets for the data folder.
+||Aditional textures and comets with ssystem.ini|| [http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/stellariumtextures.ZIP here] || 2010-08-17|| An alternative set of textures for the texture folder along with a corresponding ssystem.ini file containing a selection of comets for the data folder.
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 ||Complete MPC List|| [http://www.schultz.ch/images/content/schultz.ch/stellarium.org/minor-planet-center.ssystem.ini.zip here] || 2008-07-01 (updated monthly) || MINOR PLANET CENTER ORBIT DATABASE (MPCORB). This file contains published orbital elements for all numbered and unnumbered multi-opposition minor planets for which it is possible to make reasonable predictions. (See the [[#MPC_list|note]] bellow)

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 orbit_ArgOfPericenter =  136.8619206230844
 orbit_MeanAnomaly = 359.99999811984
 (This is data for Stellarium 0.10.5.)
 ===International Space Station===