selden wrote:I commented on this previously, but in case it was overlooked...
I commented this > 10 years ago in XEphem , where we already had implemented an automatic TLE element converter (via ftp).
Fridger
selden wrote:I commented on this previously, but in case it was overlooked...
abramson wrote:Hi, Leo. I'm still here.
My script is thoroughly commented, so you will have no problem following it if you know a little Perl. The script allows to deal with the list of asteroids in many ways. One of them is to extract asteroids of a certain class (say, Trojans) and prepare a celestia catalogue for them. But the functionality goes beyond classes: you can extract a range of asteroids (by their number), or filter by name, or provide physical parameters (orbits, radius...) to generate your favorite catalogue. So, unclassified aasteroids are not a problem, they can be chosen by any other property present in the list.
You are free to use my script for your own purposes, of course. The license is included in the script.
I always thought that the best would be to implement all this in Lua and run it directly from Celestia, but never learned enough Lua...
Regards,
Guillermo
Hungry4info wrote:If you want to make a non-violent game, you might as well make a scientific/educational game. Space Station builder, or something along those lines. Orbiter is a pretty cool programme.
selden wrote:Orbiter is a realistic space flight simulator.
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html
Teto wrote:The links don't work anymore...
Necroposting is when a tread that hasn't gotten a response in years gets a new message.abramson wrote:BTW, I don't know what's "necroposting"