Juno was spotted on 18-Dec in binoculars to double check my conversions of the elements for ‘Planetarium for the Palm’ (PftP). The charting of Juno was off by 11'44". The orbital elements for Juno supplied by A. Hofer (developer of Planetarium for the Palm) matched the location of Juno closely as seen in a mounted pair of Fujinon 10x70's. Unfortunately the previous elements I created were off by a ½ day. An updated file containing 2,000 asteroids with corrected & tested elements is now available below.
Since my PDA program ‘Planetarium for the Palm’ didn't have the bright asteroid Vesta in its database I decided to add it. On my way to resolving this task I found some recently updated orbital elements at ‘Computer Aided Astronomy’ (CA2). The Julian Date for the elements are 2453700 — November 26th, 2005.
Needless to say I translated the first 2,000 asteroids for PftP and would like to share the file. I've tested the results for 60 of the asteroids by comparing them with the desktop planetarium program ‘SkyMap Pro’ — all 60 matched.
The zip file below contains a file with all 2,000 asteroids. The file has also been broken down into files of 4K which can be imported into PftP which has a 4K restriction. I will be using the file to pick out the brighter asteroids that are not native to the PDA program.
Click on filename to download or alternate click and ‘Save Target As ...’
| FILE | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| PftP_Asteroids {1-2000}.zip | 2,000 Asteroids (20-Dec-2005) |
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