Re: [find_orb] Broken Link/orbit viewer

Bill J Gray Jul 3, 2012

Hi Andy,

Thank you. I think this may be something in the direction of
what I'm trying to do...

Previously, using the JPL site, I was able to put together a URL
that included all the orbital elements as arguments. That is, if you
went to an address such as this in your browser:

http://kaspar.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/neo.pl?Name=C/2012%20L2&Epoch=20120601.000000&M=359.96845&e=0.9968968&a=485.2814088&Peri=205.87189&Node=270.26706&Incl=70.98575&Eqnx=2000.0

...up would come the corresponding orbit. But JPL has pulled this.

I _can_ create a separate page such as this :

http://www.projectpluto.com/orbit.htm

...and the orbit view comes up. But then the pseudo-MPEC consists of two
separate files; I'd rather the whole thing was "bundled" into mpec.htm.

I can insert the applet directly into mpec.htm. But then the applet
starts up as soon as you load the pseudo-MPEC, which is annoying. Still
looking for a way to get the previous behavior. It's probably something
simple that I'm overlooking.

-- Bill