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Hi, I've got a couple of suggestions that hopefully (!) will be
trivial to implement.
Firstly, elements.txt has a nice output of the most recent fit orbit
which includes keplerian and rectangular/cartesian coordinates. I'd like
to see this file get appended to when producing a series of
monte-carlo orbit (and please keep the heliocentric ecliptic elements
for the position/velocity coordinates!) so the net result is this
file will have 50, 100 or whatever clone data sets.
Secondly, there should be a way of getting a set of the planets'
position/velocity coordinates for whatever epoch is used for the
fitting. The main thing is that it has the exact same reference frame
as the output asteroid coordinates. I'm planning to use this for some
integrations of various trans-neptunian objects. Probably it should be
a different file from all the above outputs, and it shouldn't be
recalculated at each step of monte-carlo generation!

Cheers, and thanks for a great program!

Andrew

PS The comment above about heliocentric coordinates is because both
the Mercury and Swifter integration packages use them for
initial conditions.




Thu Apr 8, 2010 8:04 am

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Hi, I've got a couple of suggestions that hopefully (!) will be trivial to implement. Firstly, elements.txt has a nice output of the most recent fit orbit ...
andrew_j_walker Offline Send Email Apr 9, 2010
6:56 pm

Hi Andrew, ... That one was easy enough to do. Find_Orb will now create a file, 'state.txt', that is basically just a log of all the 'elements.txt' files...
Bill J Gray
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Apr 10, 2010
8:38 pm

... Thanks for putting these in Bill, it's really appreciated! I'm planning to do some runs on 2001 QR322 (a Neptune Trojan) to check some of the work done in...
andrew_j_walker Offline Send Email Apr 11, 2010
6:42 am
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