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

All angles are in degrees. Default inertial reference system is:

• J2000 ecliptic for orbital elements
• J2000 equatorial for spin axis (pole)
• PDS uses 1950 Ecliptic for pole
• Flag to indicate this is PM==1.0

Bennu

 -------  5   101955 Bennu 
'1999RQ36' / http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=101955  2012feb29
2456000.5 / epoch in full Julian date
1.126038025838632 / Semi-Major axis in A.U.: a  period=436.443481 day
.2036994928473318 / Eccentricity: e
6.035405340360255 / Inclination of mean orbit to ecliptic : i [deg]
2.051615098784052 / Longitude of the ascending node: Omega [deg]
66.2666863129749  / Argument of perihelion: w [deg]
102.8657778912915 / Mean anomaly at epoch: M [deg]
-68.6423 / Right Ascension of Pole, J2000 [deg]
-78.0386 / Declination of Pole, J2000 [deg]
0. / Prime meridian at epoch [deg]
4.288 /Sideral rotation period, [days]

Ceres

-------  1    First 4 from  Minor Planet Center  
Ceres / http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/returnprepeph.cgi?d=b2011&o=00001
2455400.5 / epoch in full Julian date     2000.0= 2451545.D0 
2.7653485 / Semi-Major axis in A.U.: a
0.0791382  / Eccentricity: e
10.58682  / Inclination of mean orbit to ecliptic : i [deg]
80.39321 / Longitude of the ascending node: Omega [deg]
72.58976  / Argument of perihelion: w [deg]
113.41048 / Mean anomaly at epoch: M [deg]
315. / RA  from PDS
74. / Dec from PDS
1.0  / Prime meridian at epoch [deg]
0.379167 / Sideral rotation period, [days]  FROM ?? 9.1 Hours

Juno

-------   3
Juno /  from Minor Planet Center
2455400.5  / epoch in full Julian date
2.6700913 / Semi-Major axis in A.U.: a
0.2549812 / Eccentricity: e
12.98211  / Inclination of mean orbit to ecliptic : i [deg]
169.91138  / Longitude of the ascending node: Omega [deg]
248.10804  / Argument of perihelion: w [deg]
32.09611  / Mean anomaly at epoch: M [deg]
106. / Right Ascension of Pole,from PDS
34.  / Declination of Pole,from PDS
1.0 / no data Prime meridian at epoch [deg]
0.3003970 / Sideral rotation period, [days] from PDS

Pallas

------- 2 http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/returnprepeph.cgi?d=b2011&o=00002
Pallas / from Minor Planet Center
2455400.5 / epoch in full Julian date 
2.7721533  / Semi-Major axis in A.U.: a
0.2309995 / Eccentricity: e
34.84091  / Inclination [deg]
173.12949  / Longitude of the ascending node: Omega [deg]
310.15090  / Argument of perihelion: w [deg]
 96.14829  / Mean anomaly at epoch: M [deg]
44. /  RA  from PDS
-9.  /  Dec from PDS
1.0/  no data Prime meridian at epoch [deg]
0.32551 / Sideral rotation period, [days] from PDS

Vesta

-------   4 
Vesta / from Minor Planet Center
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