Diameters

lawrencelx200@aol.com Feb 11, 2002

There is always a nostalgic twinkle in my eye when I see references to IRAS.
I was shift leader of one of the three teams controlling the satellite. A
wonderful international project.

Lawrence Harris



> From: Bill J Gray <pluto@...>
>Subject: Diameters

> The ASTORB documentation states that the data are "IRAS
>diameter[s], km (blank if unknown; taken from the Small Bodies
Node of the Planetary Data System." Searching a bit dug up
the following table:

http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/SBNast/archive/IMPS/diamalb.tab

which appears to be the one ASTORB uses. I assume the
folks at Sky & Tel dug out something more recent (IRAS was
mid-1980s vintage), but dunno what that might be.

-- Bill