Asteroid (2009 VA) Nov. 6th, 2009

[pig571]

Asteroid 2009 VA fly-by of Earth on Nov. 6th, 2009.

Below is a video I created last week to demonstrate the closeness of 2009 VA.

Video was made using Celestia 1.6
Orbital parameters are from JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20VA;orb=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C16lEwN5rGU

If you want the .ssc, just ask.

Enjoy!

[cacjardy]

Hi plg571,

Interesting object. May I have a copy of the SSC file?
My email address is zacjardine (@) y7mail.com

Thanks,

Cak

[pig571]

# Author by Tom Philp III Updated: 20091106
# Updated Observation from JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20VA;orb=1
# JPL Closest Approach:
# Celestia Closest Approach at:
# Torino Scale:
# http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

"2009 VA" "Sol"
{
Class "asteroid" #Class
Mesh "asteroid.cms" #Mesh
Texture "asteroid.jpg" #Texture
Radius 0.0085 #Meters

CustomOrbit "2009 VA"
EllipticalOrbit
{
Eccentricity 0.3573882739332184 #EC - e -
SemiMajorAxis 1.428030849867257 #A - a - AU
PeriDistance 0.9176693693098114 #QR - q - AU
Inclination 7.541919391808355 #IN - i - deg
AscendingNode 224.5419169422727 #OM - node - deg
ArgOfPericenter 223.9910222045172 #W - peri - deg
MeanAnomaly 338.9483913019168 #MA - M - deg
Epoch 2455141.5000000000000000 #EPOCH - tp - Julian
Period 1.710653 #PER - period - years
MeanMotion 0..5775607740000001 #N - n - deg/d
AphelionDistance 1.938392330424703 #ADIST - Q - AU
#DAN
#B
#DDN
#ANGMOM
#L
}

# RotationPeriod 30.4 #Hours
# Albedo 0.33 #Reflectivity
}
#
#EC Eccentricity, e
#A Semi-major axis, a (AU)
#QR Periapsis distance, q (AU)
#IN Inclination w.r.t xy-plane, i (degrees)
#OM Longitude of Ascending Node, OMEGA, (degrees)
#W Argument of Perifocus, w (degrees)
#MA Mean anomaly, M (degrees)
#EPOCH
#PR Orbital period (day)
#N Mean motion, n (degrees/day)
#AD Apoapsis distance (AU)
#Tp Time of periapsis (Julian day number)
#TA True anomaly, nu (degrees)
#

[pig571]

Sorry about the wait, didn't have my settings right to notify me.

[W0RLDBUILDER]

You could have just pushed T after selecting Earth. It makes tracing Earth throughout the video easier, automatic I may add.

[pig571]

Alas, something new has been learned. Thanks for the tip. Now to redo my Tunguska fly in.