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ASTR302-Group-AA / Rubin-NEO-Detection

Creating tool for predicting when the Rubin Observatory would have detected near Earth objects, had it begun operations in October 2020
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NEO orbits from JPL/Horizons #4

Open mringham opened 7 months ago

mringham commented 7 months ago

This week I'll learn the data formats on the JPL/Horizons website and the format in which Sorcha expects the data. Will also work on code to convert from one format to the other.

mringham commented 7 months ago

Helpful links: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_query.html https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sb/elem_tables.html

mringham commented 7 months ago

2/14: I narrowed down the columns needed from the JPL query site that fulfill the Sorcha file requirements. Sorcha needs these columns: an object identifier, format column (will be KEP in our project), 6 orbital parameters, and the epoch.

When querying the JPL site, use these columns to filter the results: prim.desig, epoch_mjd , e, a, i, node, peri, M. Additionally, use these categories to "limit by object kind/group": NEOs, asteroids, all objects

Over the next few days, work on a code to make the JPL output suitable for Sorcha (i.e add the format column, KEP).