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astropy / astroquery

Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
http://astroquery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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Add access to MPC checker #1811

Open bsipocz opened 4 years ago

bsipocz commented 4 years ago

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/cgi-bin/checkmp.cgi

what do you think @mommermi? I'm at a hackweek atm where having this functionality in astroquery would be so powerful

mommermi commented 4 years ago

We can put this on the todo list, but we already have astroquery.imcce.skybot, which does the same thing...

bsipocz commented 4 years ago

ah, ok, I didn't know about that. Thanks!

fulsdavid commented 4 years ago

We can put this on the todo list, but we already have astroquery.imcce.skybot, which does the same thing...

@mommermi , I would still encourage you to push for the MPChecker at the Minor Planet Center along with the JPL SB Identification functionality as well. For very recently discovered objects, there tend to be differences in what MCP and JPL report when doing queries.