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Add names for comets, asteroids, artsats

Open Bill-Gray opened this issue 9 years ago • 0 comments

Ideally, if one loads observations of C/2007 Q3, Find_Orb would show it as "C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)". If you loaded observations of the minor planet (4179), it would show up as "(4179) Toutatis". And the artsat 1999-066A would appear as 1999-066A = NORAD 25989 = XMM-Newton. Files with these cross-designations are available; it wouldn't be difficult for Find_Orb to use them.

Bill-Gray avatar Aug 01 '16 15:08 Bill-Gray