RE: NASA requesting Stardust reentry observations

From: Dale Ireland (direland@drdale.com)
Date: Wed Dec 28 2005 - 10:38:13 EST

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     I would like to get the "solar centric" comet format orbital elements for
    Stardust to run a simulation in Dance of the Planets. Does anyone know where
    those might be found?
    Dale
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Tony Beresford [mailto:dberesford@adam.com.au] 
    
    > http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html
    > 
    > This system has web, telnet and e-mail interfaces.
    > The e-mail interface is the most flexible and biggest learning curve.
    > However the web interface allows ra dec and distance from the 
    > geocentre so a little extra caculation gives geoecentric cartesian,
    > if thats what you want, or just use   two vectors to calculate
    > geocentric hyperbolic orbit.
    > 
    > Tony Beresford
    
    > 
    
    
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