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