Astroblog: Celestia File for 2010 TD54

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Celestia File for 2010 TD54

2010 TD54 as visualized in Celestia, near the Moon and Earth

While 2010 TD54 is too small for all but the most instrument intensive amateurs, you can still enjoy its zoom by Earth using the 3D simulation program Celestia. The image to the left shows the asteroid at its closest approach to the Moon, with the earth in the background. Copy the text below the image and save it as the file 2010TD54.ssc

There is not much point putting it into Stellarium as it is too dim to see, but I've included Stellarium coordinates at the end anyway.

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"2010 TD54" "Sol"
{
Class "asteroid"
Mesh "ky26.cmod"
Texture "asteroid.jpg"
Radius 0.005 # maximum semi-axis
MeshCenter [ -0.000718 -0.000099 0.000556 ]

InfoURL "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_TD54"

EllipticalOrbit
{
Epoch 2455400.5 # Epoch 2010 July 23.0
Period 2.39
SemiMajorAxis 1.7852901
Eccentricity 0.6190460
Inclination 5.07352
AscendingNode 18.76386
ArgOfPericenter 80.47642
MeanAnomaly 306.6630
}

RotationPeriod 0.178 #made up

Albedo 0.15 #made up
}
===============>8========================>8==========

[2010TD54]
name = 2010TD54
parent = Sun
radius = 0.005
oblateness = 0.0
albedo = 0.15
lighting = true
orbit_visualization_period = 1325.46
halo = true
color = 1.0,1.0,1.0
tex_halo = star16x16.png
tex_map = nomap.png
coord_func = comet_orbit
orbit_Epoch = 2455400.5
orbit_MeanAnomaly = 306.66304
orbit_SemiMajorAxis = 1.7852901
orbit_Eccentricity = 0.6190460
orbit_ArgOfPericenter = 80.47642
orbit_AscendingNode = 18.76386
orbit_Inclination = 5.07352

Labels: asteroids, celestia, stellarium