Creating 10199 Chariklo in Celestia
Posted: 12.05.2008, 05:15
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:
Then open up Celestia and you've got a new Centaur.
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.
