Minor Planet Center - Asteroid Orbital Data Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Williams, G.
  2. Keys, S.
  3. Rudenko, M.
  4. Galache, J.L.
  5. Published by
    The GAVO DC team
Abstract
Complete Asteroid Data from the Minor Planet Center (MPC),
updated once per month.  The MPC operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory under the auspices of Division III of the International
Astronomical Union (IAU).

The MPC Orbit database contains orbital elements of minor
planets that have been published in the Minor Planet Circulars,
the Minor Planet Orbit Supplement and the Minor Planet
Electronic Circulars.
Keywords
  1. asteroids
  2. surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1980CeMec..22...63M
See also HTML
http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/browse/mpc/q
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://org.gavo.dc/mpc/q/import

Access

IVOA Table Access TAP
http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tap
https://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

History

2009-09-08T10:30:00Z
Resource record created
2024-04-03T13:11:01Z
updated

Contact

Name
GAVO Data Center Team
Postal Address
Mönchhofstrasse 12-14, D-69120 Heidelberg
E-Mail
gavo@ari.uni-heidelberg.de
Telephone
++49 6221 54 1837