Hello Out There !
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Topic authorLuke Phillips
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Hello Out There !
I just recently got this wonderful program and have become addicted overnight! Question: I understand that the asteroid Toutatis is supposed to make a very close pass to Earth in 2004 sometime. Can this be accurately simulated using Celestia?
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granthutchison
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Also, don't forget that it's really close right now!
However, I just downloaded from Horizons the orbital elements they predict for next year's flyby, and the results shown by Celestia aren't quite the same as the prediction made by NeoDys at http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:Toutatis;main
The date's the same, but Horizon's xyz shows a time of closest approach that's almost 12 hours later.
(as usual, this links to a larger image)
*grump*
However, I just downloaded from Horizons the orbital elements they predict for next year's flyby, and the results shown by Celestia aren't quite the same as the prediction made by NeoDys at http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:Toutatis;main
The date's the same, but Horizon's xyz shows a time of closest approach that's almost 12 hours later.
(as usual, this links to a larger image)
*grump*
Selden