Re: Broken Link/orbit viewer

Joseph Jul 3, 2012

Hi Bill,

Is it practical to ask JPL to replace the link?

As a government agency, they do indirectly work for us, and I use that feature to help recover faint asteroids that Lowell Observatory lists as needing updates before they are lost.

The potential discovery 2012 MQ11 I mentioned turned out to be the recovery of 2010 GY148 that the NASA/JPL WISE satellite observed for 2 to 3 days in April, 2010. I have helped recover, or at least dramatically improve the orbits of, several dozen WISE observations - along with more than one thousand other minor planets.

Joe


--- In find_orb@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>