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Many of the recently discovered moons of Saturn and Uranus have not yet had their orbits accurately measured. Grant Hutchison has provided an SSC catalog for them, however, specifying the values that have been determined.

For the catalog and more information, please see http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/poormoons.html
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I seem to already have orbit definitions for 2004S1, 2004S2, and 2004S3, which I must have picked up earlier from this forum.

I shall delete the old ssc file(s) and install this new complete package.

cheers,
TERRIER

I think there's a mistake in this file: the new Saturn moons are orbiting much slower than their neighbours:

cel://Follow/Sol:Saturn/2005-03-28T04:3 ... 1&lm=49156

I realise that the orbits are not yet perfectly defined but presumably they orbit at a similar speed to their neighbours? Or am I missing something?

poormoons.ssc now has been repaired so that it specifies correct orbital periods.

Thanks, that's much better!

So we now have 'smallmoons.ssc', 'tinymoons.ssc', 'numberedmoons.ssc', 'minormoons.ssc', 'littlemoons.ssc', 'poormoons.ssc' and what else?

I wish someone would take responsibility for this whole crap and transfer it into a more intuitive format. What about one file for every planet? I mean, it's the same situation as with asteroids - the data is split over a dozen files, with no noticeable classification between it. Isn't there any underlying sientific structure we can build upon?

maxim

maxim wrote:So we now have 'smallmoons.ssc', 'tinymoons.ssc', 'numberedmoons.ssc', 'minormoons.ssc', 'littlemoons.ssc', 'poormoons.ssc' and what else?

'uoo.ssc' (Unidentified Orbiting Objects)
So, Maxim, what is 'littlemoons.ssc'? Seems to me i miss this addon reference in my catalog (i'll uptade it with this recent Grant's contribution), where is it? Jeam

Jeam Tag wrote:So, Maxim, what is 'littlemoons.ssc'? Seems to me i miss this addon reference in my catalog (i'll uptade it with this recent Grant's contribution), where is it? Jeam

I'd been ironic - it doesn't exist.

maxim

maxim wrote:

Jeam Tag wrote:So, Maxim, what is 'littlemoons.ssc'? Seems to me i miss this addon reference in my catalog (i'll uptade it with this recent Grant's contribution), where is it? Jeam

I'd been ironic - it doesn't exist.maxim

Arf, I'll must archive it with my 'uoo's.ssc' . Jeam.

maxim wrote:So we now have 'smallmoons.ssc', 'tinymoons.ssc', 'numberedmoons.ssc', 'minormoons.ssc', 'littlemoons.ssc', 'poormoons.ssc' and what else?

Evidently we're missing 'richmoons.ssc' to provide the full economic spectrum...