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Yikes, a near-miss on 31 August:
Grant

granthutchison wrote:Yikes, a near-miss on 31 August:

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"2006 QM111" "Sol" {

   Class   "asteroid"
   Texture "asteroid.jpg"
   Mesh    "asteroid.cms"
   Radius  0.03


   EllipticalOrbit {
      Epoch        2454000.5   
      Period             4.1731 
      SemiMajorAxis      2.5919832060534       
      Eccentricity       0.729996700971176 
      Inclination        1.42332455430029             
      AscendingNode    155.801993529104 
      ArgOfPericenter  256.584071810182
      MeanAnomaly      354.672944000909       
      }

   RotationPeriod     1   # guess
}

Grant

How do I use this in Celestia?

Red,

Grant has provided the contents of an SSC catalog file. Copy and paste the text into a file named (for example) qm111.ssc in your Celestia/extras/ directory. Then start Celestia and enjoy.

You might consider reading
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... intro.html