38628 Huya (2000 EB173)

[ravandenhout]

Could anyone please help me?

I've made a first attempt of making a new object in Celestia and I'm not sure if all the information in the SSC file is correct.
It's the asteroid Huya...... Here's the scc file

"38628 Huya:Huya:2000 EB173" "Sol" {

Class "asteroid"
Texture "asteroid.jpg"
Radius 260

EllipticalOrbit {
Epoch 2454100.5
Period 42.956
SemiMajorAxis 39.762
Eccentricity 0.282
Inclination 15.463
AscendingNode 169.296
ArgOfPericenter 67.637
MeanAnomaly 348.506
}

Albedo 0.05

UniformRotation
{
Period 10 # (??????????????????)
}
}

Thus anyone with knowledge of programming orbits........ teach me please?

Richard

[selden]

Richard,

Your SSC catalog looks reasonable to me.

I don't know what format the original orbital parameters were in, but maybe the information on the Web page http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... meris.html will help a little.

[ravandenhout]

Selden,
Thank you very much for pointing me at the hyperlink you mentioned.

Richard

[Chuft-Captain]

Also, when posting code Richard, it's a good idea to enclose it inside a CODE block.
-- Click on the CODE button at the top, then cut/paste the code from the SSC inbetween the tags.
This allows it to retain it's format and makes it easier for people to help you.

Like so:

Code: Select all

"38628 Huya:Huya:2000 EB173" "Sol"
{
   Class "asteroid"
   Texture "asteroid.jpg"
   Radius 260

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
      Epoch 2454100.5
      Period 42.956
      SemiMajorAxis 39.762
      Eccentricity 0.282
      Inclination 15.463
      AscendingNode 169.296
      ArgOfPericenter 67.637
      MeanAnomaly 348.506
   }

   Albedo 0.05

   UniformRotation
   {
      Period 10 # (??????????????????)
   }
}