Suggestions for asteroid add-ons

[Christopher]

I've been reading up on the asteroids of the Main Belt lately, and have discovered some resources that I think would be nice to see included in Celestia as add-ons or upgrades. They're mostly found at this site:

http://home.comcast.net/~eliws/ceres/

This includes cool stuff like this new image of Ceres:

http://home.comcast.net/~eliws/ceres/im ... _print.jpg

It would be nice to see Celestia's Ceres updated to reflect this slightly reddish color and the patches of white (though I think the color contrast in that image is exaggerated).

It would also be nice to have a Vesta model shaped more like we now know it to be:

http://home.comcast.net/~eliws/ceres/im ... fVesta.jpg

(It's already close to this shape, but doesn't come to a point like that on the south pole.)

Also, the page includes links to a couple of PDF files showing what the shapes of various asteroids are believed to be based on their light curves. If someone were so inclined, they could presumably build asteroid models using these shapes:

http://home.comcast.net/~eliws/ceres/fi ... eroids.pdf

http://home.comcast.net/~eliws/ceres/fi ... eroids.pdf

Anyone interested?