Creating 10199 Chariklo in Celestia

[solstar]

Hi, new on the boards (registered for this, actually). Here is Celestia data for importing Chariklo (aka 1997 CU26). It should appear between Saturn and Uranus, but the only Centaur planetoid that appears between those two planets in the default version is 2060 Chiron.

Using Wordpad, open up your "asteroids.ssc" file in the "data" folder, scroll to the bottom (under "Centaurs" - as mentioned there's only one there), and at the very end of the text file import the following:

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"Chariklo" "Sol"
{
   Class "asteroid"
   Texture "asteroid.jpg"
        Color [ 1.000 0.960 0.919 ]
   BlendTexture true
   Radius 129

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Epoch        2453700.0      # 2005 Nov 25 00:00UT
   Period            63.17
   SemiMajorAxis     15.87
   Eccentricity       0.17534
   Inclination        23.375
   AscendingNode    300.451
   ArgOfPericenter  242.361
   MeanAnomaly      10.6
   }

   UniformRotation
   {
   Period 5.918
   }

   Albedo 0.055
}


Then open up Celestia and you've got a new Centaur.

[ANDREA]

It works, thank you very much.
Bye

Andrea

[symaski62]

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1997+CU26&orb=1



Update 14/05/2008

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Epoch 2453700.0 # 2005 Nov 25 00:00UT
Period 63.17
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Epoch 2454600.5 # 2008 may 14 00:00UT
Period 62.97
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