Minorplanet.info Website Review

Funding to support this web site is provided by NASA grant  This web site serves as a gateway to the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) web site in addition to many other subsites, external sites, and pages that concern research on asteroids (the minor planets). files from their data. The ZIP file contains a Windows (7-10) 32-bit program and docu*entation. Please read the docs before installing the PLEASE NOTE: The file uploaded on 2018 November 18 was missing data for about 20 asteroids. The latest file was uploaded at 17:30 UT, 2018 IMPORTANT NOTICE: Column mappings were changed in several files starting with the 2016 December release. See the updated README.TXT single oppositions data table that covers from 2014-2020. This allows you to plan further into the future. The table will be updated around the first of each year, removing the oldest data and extending out another year. generating the ephemeris for a specific start date and UT. latest files, which cover numbered asteroids from 1 to 480,806. The CALL web site provides pages to where you can reserve an asteroid for observation. This lets other observers know that you are working it and either find another target or to request a collaboration in order to gather more data sooner. You can also submit the results of your asteroid lightcurve observations so that they are available to others prior to formal publication. The CALL site includes subpages that provide lists of targets for upcoming and recent past 3-month periods and other sites dedicated to asteroid authors, and (optionally) abstracts for the papers for a selected issue are displayed to make browsing through past issues easier.  LCDB pages include a query page where you can generate custom reports. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Column mappings for each table can change. The mappings allow parsing the text files by knowing where on each line a value is found and the maximum number of characters. See the updated README.TXT file in the ZIP.