[Cassini-Huygens]Again new tiny moons

[Jeam Tag]

Hello,
I've just seen this
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMN7LW4QWD_0.html2 new bodies between Mimas & Encelade.
Jeam

[Brendan]

I made preprimary Celestia entites for those moons using this page.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites/satsatdata.html

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"2004S1" "Sol/Saturn"
{
   Texture   "Asteroid-Dark.jpg"
   Mesh      "asteroid.cms"
   Radius   1.5

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Period      1.01
   SemiMajorAxis   194000
   Eccentricity   0.000
   Inclination      0.000      #
   AscendingNode   000.0      #
   ArgOfPericenter   00.0      # J2000.0
   MeanAnomaly        000.0       #
   }

   Albedo 0.7
}

"2004S2" "Sol/Saturn"
{
   Texture   "Asteroid-Dark.jpg"
   Mesh      "asteroid.cms"
   Radius   2

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Period      1.14
   SemiMajorAxis   211000
   Eccentricity   0.000
   Inclination      0.000      #
   AscendingNode   000.0      #
   ArgOfPericenter   00.0      # J2000.0
   MeanAnomaly        000.0       #
   }

   Albedo 0.7
}


I made their albedos 0.7 to be in between the 0.5 of Mimas and the 0.99 of Enceladus and used half of the given sizes as their radii. Lots of the elements are still 0, including the mean anomaly so they're likely to not be in the right locations in their orbits.

Brendan

[symaski62]

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"2004S3" "Sol/Saturn"
{
   Texture   "Asteroid-Dark.jpg"
   Mesh      "asteroid.cms"
   Radius   2.25

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Period      0.7618
   SemiMajorAxis   141000
   Eccentricity   0.000
   Inclination      0.000      #
   AscendingNode   000.0      #
   ArgOfPericenter   00.0      # J2000.0
   MeanAnomaly        000.0       #
   }

   Albedo 0.7
}

2004S3 NEW
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2004-222

[Brendan]

Oh, I forget to change Asteroid-Dark to Asteroid to fit the 0.7 albedo I used.

[Jeam Tag]

Oh, I forget to change Asteroid-Dark to Asteroid to fit the 0.7 albedo I used.

Hello folks, may I suggest my maneer to add items in the 'numbered moons.ssc' file:

# Numbered moons of Saturn
"2004S1" "Sol/Saturn" # Between Mimas and Enceladus / Cassini-Huygens probe 2004
{
Texture "asteroid.jpg" # Default's Asteroid Texture
# Texture "Asteroid-Dark.jpg"
Mesh "asteroid.cms"
Radius 1.5

EllipticalOrbit
{
Period 1.01
SemiMajorAxis 194000
Eccentricity 0.000
Inclination 0.000 #
AscendingNode 000.0 #
ArgOfPericenter 00.0 # J2000.0
MeanAnomaly 000.0 #
}

Albedo 0.7
}

"2004S2" "Sol/Saturn" # Between Mimas and Enceladus / Cassini-Huygens probe 2004
{
Texture "asteroid.jpg" # Default's Asteroid Texture
# Texture "Asteroid-Dark.jpg"
Mesh "asteroid.cms"
Radius 2

EllipticalOrbit
{
Period 1.14
SemiMajorAxis 211000
Eccentricity 0.000
Inclination 0.000 #
AscendingNode 000.0 #
ArgOfPericenter 00.0 # J2000.0
MeanAnomaly 000.0 #
}

Albedo 0.7
}

"2004S3" "Sol/Saturn" # Cassini-Huygens probe 2004
{
Texture "asteroid.jpg" # Default's Asteroid Texture
# Texture "Asteroid-Dark.jpg"
Mesh "asteroid.cms"
Radius 2.25
InfoURL "http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2004-222"

EllipticalOrbit
{
Period 0.7618
SemiMajorAxis 141000
Eccentricity 0.000
Inclination 0.000 #
AscendingNode 000.0 #
ArgOfPericenter 00.0 # J2000.0
MeanAnomaly 000.0 #
}

Albedo 0.7
}

with firstly (Brendan), default's Celestia refs -plus desactivated suggestion for other mesh or texture- and, secondly (Symasky), InfoURL line to link infos about these objects? Thanks for these preliminary installations, Jeam

[symaski62]

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pgj/index.htm (fran?ais)

[Jeam Tag]

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pgj/index.htm (fran?ais)

Oui, la d?p?che en fran?ais, plus sp?cialement page suivante. Je voulais surtout proposer d'inclure le lien (celui d?j? cit? par exemple) dans le fichier .ssc sous la forme d'une ligne InfoURL. Cela permet d'acceder ? la page en cliquant 'info' sur l'objet lorsque Celestia tourne.
Yes, and more especially the following page for the annoucemnt in french. But I maint: to add the link in a InfoURL line in the ssc file (see my example with the first link you're provided) to access the page directly from Celestia by 'info' click on the object. Jeam