Celestia Files of the recent Dwarf Planet finds
In quick succession the team of Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have announced 3 new Dwarf planets. 2012 VP113 has an enormous 4000 year long orbit, and represent an object from the inner edge. The two others 2013 FY27 and 2013 FZ27 are more “traditional” Scattered disk objects (that seems ironic now).
Once again I have made a Celestia file, three files actually. In the clestia download I use, Sedna was ilsted as an Asterid, bot a dwarf planet, so if its orbot doesn’t turn up when you enable Dwarf Planets in Render | View Otions, but does when you turn on Asteroids, go to the data folder, find outersys.ssc (save a cpopy just in case), open and scroll down to Sedna and replace Class “asteroid” with Class “dwarfplanet”.
As usual, copy the data here to a plain text file ( 2012VP113.ssc etc.) and copy the file to the Celestia extras folder.
========================2012VP113.ssc==================================
"2012 VP113" "Sol"
#Sedna like inner Oort cloud object
#Data from MPC http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html
#Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
#M 3.06601 (2000.0) P Q
#n 0.00021494 Peri. 291.14923 +0.84619626 -0.34404613 T = 2442536.18257 JDT
#a 276.0078196 Node 90.89192 +0.49413218 +0.79246630 q = 79.8521916
#e 0.7106887 Incl. 24.01461 -0.19946247 +0.50361634
#P4585 H 4.1 G 0.15 U 6
#From 24 observations at 2 oppositions, 2012-2013, mean residual 0".24.
{
Class "dwarfplanet"
Texture "pluto-lok.*"
SpecularTexture "pluto-lok-spec.*"
SpecularColor [ 0.135 0.12 0.08 ]
SpecularPower 9.5
Radius 500 # maximum semi-axis
InfoURL "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_VP113"
EllipticalOrbit
{
Epoch 2456800.5 # Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5
Period 4585 # P
SemiMajorAxis 276.0078196 # a
Eccentricity 0.7106887 # e
Inclination 24.01461 # Incl.
AscendingNode 90.89192 # Node
ArgOfPericenter 291.14923 # Peri
PericenterDistance 79.8521916 # q
MeanAnomaly 3.06601 # M
}
RotationPeriod 0.9 #Guess
Albedo 0.4 #Based on Sedna
}
==========================================================
=======================2013FY27.ssc===================================
"2013 FY27" "Sol"
#Eris-like scattered disk object
#Data from MPC http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html
#Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
#M 214.46118 (2000.0) P Q
#n 0.00216253 Peri. 136.72941 +0.79347223 +0.60486455 T = 2524100.74140 JDT
#a 59.2235677 Node 187.09259 -0.58925583 +0.79121780 q = 35.8742198
#e 0.3942577 Incl. 33.07550 +0.15224777 -0.09007372
#P 456 H 3.0 G 0.15 U 8
#From 12 observations at 2 oppositions, 2013-2014, mean residual 0".27.
{
Class "dwarfplanet"
Texture "pluto-lok.*"
SpecularTexture "pluto-lok-spec.*"
SpecularColor [ 0.135 0.12 0.08 ]
SpecularPower 9.5
Radius 500 # maximum semi-axis
InfoURL "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_FY27"
EllipticalOrbit
{
Epoch 2456800.5 # Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5
Period 456 # P
SemiMajorAxis 59.2235677 # a
Eccentricity 0.3942577 # e
Inclination 33.07550 # Incl.
AscendingNode 187.09259 # Node
ArgOfPericenter 136.72941 # Peri
PericenterDistance 35.8742198 # q
MeanAnomaly 214.46118 # M
}
RotationPeriod 0.9 #Guess
Albedo 0.14 #Theortically expected
}
==========================================================
======================2013FZ27.ssc====================================
"2013 FZ27" "Sol"
#Eris-like scattered disk object
#Data from MPC http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html
#Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
#M 277.75427 (2000.0) P Q
#n 0.00293700 Peri. 341.17225 -0.05888594 +0.97046090 T = 2484803.84051 JDT
#a 48.2910933 Node 284.91917 -0.88199787 -0.16035023 q = 38.0092953
#e 0.2129129 Incl. 14.01192 -0.46755985 +0.18025938
#P 336 H 4.4 G 0.15 U 6
#From 17 observations at 2 oppositions, 2013-2014, mean residual 0".42.
{
Class "dwarfplanet"
Texture "pluto-lok.*"
SpecularTexture "pluto-lok-spec.*"
SpecularColor [ 0.135 0.12 0.08 ]
SpecularPower 9.5
Radius 500 # maximum semi-axis
InfoURL "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_FZ27"
EllipticalOrbit
{
Epoch 2456800.5 # Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5
Period 336 # P
SemiMajorAxis 48.2910933 # a
Eccentricity 0.2129129 # e
Inclination 14.01192 # Incl.
AscendingNode 284.91917 # Node
ArgOfPericenter 341.17225 # Peri
PericenterDistance 38.0092953 # q
MeanAnomaly 277.75427 # M
}
RotationPeriod 0.9 #Guess
Albedo 0.14 #Theortically expected
}
==========================================================
Source: http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2014/04/celestia-files-of-recent-dwarf-planet.html
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