Monday, August 15, 2005
More on Sylvia and her moons, Romulus and Remus
This is an image of (87) Sylvia and its moon Remus, as seen from the surface of Sylvias other moon, Romulus (click on the image for a full size version where you can actually see Remus). The image was generated in Celestia from a hand-rolled Celsetia descriptor file. The orbital elements for Sylvia came from the MPC and the Johnston Archive, with a little help from a Wikpedia entry and the table from the Nature paper on Sylvia and her moons. The table is free, but the paper requires subscription. I used the Celestia surface map for Ida as the template for Sylvia (they are not too disimilar as being roughly potato shaped). My next mission is to watch an eclipse from the surface of Sylvia. After that I have to fix the orbit of 2003 El61, then set up the planet around the triple star system.
Again, if anyone wants the ssc files for this asteroid and its moons, please ask and I'll send them on (along with the ssc files for UB313 etc.). I haven't forgotten about the Celestia tours, I'll finish them in a little while.
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 11:15 pm 
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