OrbFit: Software to Determine Orbits of Asteroids
Abstract
OrbFit is a software system allowing one to compute the orbits of asteroids starting from the observations, to propagate these orbits, and to compute predictions on the future (and past) position on the celestial sphere. It is a tool to be used to find a well known asteroid, to recover a lost one, to attribute a small group of observations, to identify two orbits with each other, to study the future (and/or past) close approaches to Earth, thus to assess the risk of an impact, and more.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- June 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011ascl.soft06015O
- Keywords:
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- Software