RE: {MPML} Asteroid K11K15S in 2003 images ?

alessandro odasso Sep 11, 2011

Thanks Bill for your interesting work and for writing the tutorial showing how to use Find_Orb in cases like this! ... and thanks Tommy for your update.

Cheers,
Alessandro


> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:52:03 -0400
> From: pluto@...
> To: alessandro_odasso@...
> CC: mpml@yahoogroups.com; find_orb@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: {MPML} Asteroid K11K15S in 2003 images ?
>
> Hi Alessandro,
>
> > is there any chance that object AAAAA (visible in SkyMorph images and not
> > identified by Astplot) and K11K15S are the same asteroid ?
>
> Yes, I'm reasonably confident that they are.
>
> > In this case I am unable to use Find_Orb to collect all the measurements together.
>
> That's because Find_Orb is not very good at doing this sort of thing.
> I've been working on this a bit of late, but am still not very happy with
> the results; it requires a lot of human intervention. I've described a way
> to link arcs in Find_Orb, using your AAAAA/2011 KS15 case as an example, at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/linkage.htm
>
> Sort of a quick-and-dirty "how to link" tutorial for Find_Orb users.
>
> I've found that I can almost always replicate linkages found by MPC and
> reported on Daily Orbit Updates. Actually _finding_ such linkages in the
> first place... well, that'll take some more work, for which I may or may
> not have time! I've ideas that would either reduce the computational
> complexity of the problem, or "solve" the complexity by just writing
> a program that anyone could download, thereby distributing the work over
> a slew of machines. As the DOUs illustrate, there are a lot of linkages
> to be done among currently unlinked arcs.
>
> -- Bill


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