A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post are we going to have these new minimoons just discovered in the program?
If you mean '2020 CD3', probably not, because it does not have a stable earth orbit and will not remain in the Earth's sphere of influence for long.
But here it is as an asteroid:
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// -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
// Filename: 2020_CD3.sc
// Comment: Temporarily captured 'moon' of Earth
// JackDole (Gerhard H. Quast) 2020.02.29 07:48:51
// https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3
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LogLevel 1
Asteroid "2020 CD3/C26FED2"
{
ParentBody "Sol"
Class "Asteroid"
AsterType "NEO" // (Apollo - Amor - NEO - temporarily captured)
Radius 0.0024 // 1.9 - 3.5 meter
DiscDate "2020.02.15"
AbsMagn 31.72
Orbit
{
RefPlane "Ecliptic"
Epoch 2459000.5
Eccentricity 0.01722440066805479
SemiMajorAxis 1.022687768259784
PericenterDist 1.005072584380959
Inclination 0.6403091503192192
AscendingNode 83.00207752936056
ArgOfPericen 46.9429258501142
MeanAnomaly 117.0320616803464
PeriodDays 377.7574336874017
MeanMotion 0.9529924970262897
//aphelion distance 1.040302952138609
}
}
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(Put this file in 'addons\catalogs\planets'.)