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Thanks for the reply. I used your resource and even though now, the position of the asteroid seems closer in accuracy, there seems to be a problem with the orbit... or again, it could be my mistake. As I said earlier, I am not even an amateur astronomer and my tech aptitude is probably much lower th...

I have tried to display the asteroid 2005 YU 55 as it is shown in the graphic at Space.com: http://www.space.com/13512-huge-space-rock-2005-yu55-sneaks-moon-distance-infographic.html but cannot get the orbits to align in the same way as they are shown in the graphic with the time in Celestia set to ...