10th Planet

[adamnieman]

You've probably heard about the latest discovery by Mike Brown's team at Caltech.

If not, check it out:
JPL's press release: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/media/072905/
Discoverer's Web site: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/
New Scientist article: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7763

Here is some code to add to your 'extras' folder. Copy the code and paste it at the end of your 'outersys.ssc' file or create a new file and give it any name you like (as long as it has an ssc file extension).

#Preliminary elements for 2003ub313 by Adam Nieman (http://www.spacesignpost.com) 30 July 2005
#2003ub313 is the '10th planet', announced in July 2005.
#Data from: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K05/K05O41.html
#Discoverer's Web site: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/
#JPL's press release: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/media/072905/

"10th Planet" "Sol"
{
Class "planet"
Texture "asteroid.jpg"
Radius 1350
Albedo 0.05

EllipticalOrbit
{
Epoch 20050818.0
Period 557
SemiMajorAxis 67.7091000
Eccentricity 0.4416129
Inclination 44.17700
AscendingNode 35.87500
ArgOfPericenter 151.31153
MeanAnomaly 197.53790
}
}

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[adamnieman]

Grant Hutchison has already added all the new planetoids to outersys.ssc

See his post here:
http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7726

Or go directly to the file here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/celestia/celestia/data/outersys.ssc

Unlike Grant, I decided to call 2003 UB313 a 'planet' rather than an 'asteroid'. (As far as I'm concerned, the difference between planets and asteroids is arbitrary and arbitrarily we can call everything Pluto-sized or larger a 'planet'.)

[John Van Vliet]

hay thanks now i don't have to go and look it up

PS to all that are new it is very easy to add new things
just look at that bit of code it is simply a text discription

any new user can do it so go and give it a try

[Planet X]

I have created a texture for the new planet. It is now available for download at the Celestia motherload. For more information, visit my topic about it in the addons forum. Later!

J P