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here is a list of minor planets who don't exist in Celestia, except:
1 Ceres
2 Pallas
3 Juno
4 Vesta
951 Gaspra
243 Ida
433 Eros
25143 Itokawa
4179 Toutatis
1620 Geographos
216 Kleopatra
1998 KY26
2063 Bacchus
6489 Golevka
4769 Castalia
2060 Chiron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets

it is over 200.000 minor planets, and I have begun to add them to Celestia

Such add-ons have already been produced. Specifically, a script exists somewhere on this forum to generate a user-defined number of small bodies from a database.

Also, I can't begin to imagine how much free time you will need to add a few hundred thousand asteroids by hand.

You'll also find that once you have so many, Celestia will take a bit longer to load.

my God...

how about a quick search with the keyword 'asteroid' through previous contributions to this forum, before opening a (trivial) new thread?

I was the first one to display impressive numbers of asteroids from the official catalog almost 10 years ago in this forum! While it takes Perl barely longer to convert the full scientific list of asteroids to Celestia's format, I typically displayed sets around 10000 at the time, since Celestia was hardly able to handle more. Here is a historical example from 2002:



The list of asteroid orbits was generated by a very small Perl script and took me about 5 minutes to code and test.

Fridger

Navigation hazards for starships!

Cosmographia discussion has been moved to Petit Bistro.