KRC for Asteroids

List of available Asteroids

General advice about using KRC on Asteroids

When using KRC on Asteroids the best practice is to:

• For KRC Davinci Interface, use "minor" as the bodytype
• For KRC Davinci interface, use quotation marks around the bodytype and body parameter (See Command Line Example Below)
• For additional help see the Asteroids section of the advanced tutorial

Orbital Information for Common Asteroids

All information is taken from minor.tab

Vesta

2455400.5 / epoch in full Julian date
2.3619124 / Semi-Major axis in A.U.: a
0.0886225 / Eccentricity: e
7.13407   / Inclination of mean orbit to ecliptic : i [deg]
103.90970 / Longitude of the ascending node: Omega [deg]
149.83731 / Argument of perihelion: w [deg]
307.80111 / Mean anomaly at epoch: M [deg]
325.      / Right Ascension of Pole    PDS=355 Kyrs07=326
55.       / Declination of Pole      PDS=41   Kyrs07=53
1.0       / Prime meridian at epoch [deg]
0.2225886 / Sideral rotation period, [days]

Command Line Example

$ davinci
dv> krc(bodytype = "minor", body = "Abbe", lat = )

Common Problems

Sometimes there is a sequence of output that reads

Division by zero, 1 times