pluto's new moons.

[SittingDuck]

If this isnt new news tell me, but I justs aw this on the news andthen found it on wikipedia.

If so, how long do we have to wait for them to be confirmed.
Does it have to be confirmed for it to be an add-on?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto%27s_natural_satellites

[PlutonianEmpire]

http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8248

[SittingDuck]

yes; im a retard. Sorry fer wasted space.

[BrainDead]

yes; im a retard. Sorry fer wasted space.

No, you're NOT a retard...

You're another person who has gotten a real kick out of science, and wanted
to share the feeling with others. Good show.

[bdm]

yes; im a retard. Sorry fer wasted space.

It's not a waste of space, but a good spot for discussing the addon.

[NoXion]

I added the two small moons into my install of Celestia - A small thing, but it makes it feel just that little bit more complete.

[Malenfant]

Just to separate what Grant wrote in that thread from the unrelated noise there...

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"2005P1" "Sol/Pluto" # (IAUC 8625)
{
   Texture       "asteroid.jpg"
   Mesh      "asteroid.cms"
   Radius      70 # ~140 km diameter for 15% albedo
   
   InfoURL "http://www.boulder.swri.edu/plutonews/"

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Period      38.2
   SemiMajorAxis   64700
   AscendingNode   273  # "probably in the same plane as Charon"
   }

   Albedo 0.15 # estimate, based on KBOs
}

"2005P2" "Sol/Pluto" # (IAUC 8625)
{
   Texture       "asteroid.jpg"
   Mesh      "asteroid.cms"
   Radius      60 # ~120 km diameter for 15% albedo
   
   InfoURL "http://www.boulder.swri.edu/plutonews/"

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Period      25.5
   SemiMajorAxis   49400
   AscendingNode   273  # "probably in the same plane as Charon"
   }

   Albedo 0.15 # estimate, based on KBOs



The new version of poormoons.ssc is now up on Selden's site at http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celesti ... moons.html (Would've been up much sooner if he hadn't had to cope with my various typos in the covering information.)
In addition to the Plutonian orbits given here, the only other change is that it includes the new name "Daphnis" for 2005S1.

It goes with version 1.22 of numberedmoons.ssc, available on the CVS tree at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/c ... 2&view=log, which includes the recently discovered Saturnians 2004S1-2004S6.

[SittingDuck]

Thanks Braindead and bdm!!

Im glad code for this has already been written. I guess it will not be at motherlode though as it is on selden's site. I just thought it might be more accesible there?