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29 Jul 2017 16:21

Hi Silicon, welcome back. Permian Therapsid is right, I just checked and the satellite you added is referred to the main belt asteroid 2343 Siding Spring, discovered in 1979, not yet in SE catalog but it will be added now.
Comet Siding Spring you refer to it's a non-periodic comet discovered in 2013, C/2013 A1 Siding Spring. During that passage at perihelion went so close to Mars that several probes at the time in martian orbit could detect its dust.
I will add as soon as I can your contribution.
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29 Jul 2017 17:02

Hi Silicon, welcome back. Permian Therapsid is right, I just checked and the satellite you added is referred to the main belt asteroid 2343 Siding Spring, discovered in 1979, not yet in SE catalog but it will be added now.
Comet Siding Spring you refer to it's a non-periodic comet discovered in 2013, C/2013 A1 Siding Spring. During that passage at perihelion went so close to Mars that several probes at the time in martian orbit could detect its dust.
I will add as soon as I can your contribution.
Hello Mosfet, I did actually add this asteroid in one of my Main belt asteroids update that if do remember correctly, SpaceEngineer did add to the catalog of the Solar System.

The addition however, I did post that in with the downloadable files included only on the 0.981 beta test thread. This is on page 11 of the tread. I did post there because I did change the code names assigned to some comets that had conflicting names with each other or with minor planets.

As you likely know many comets have been discovered by same observer. This is why there are comets with same names, and why comets with same names are usually referred as using names like Shoemaker-Levy 9 for example to distinguish it from other "Shoemaker-Levy" comets when you do not want to use the full designation of the comet. I did use similar naming style in my update.

Minor planets however have unique names among themselves and this is why I did reserve the name "Siding Spring" for the asteroid. And because my file used as a base the comet file from 0.981 I did post it only there. You can check it out if you want on the 0.981 beta test page 11 Mosfet.

Data on the asteroid from my old minor planet update:
Asteroid	"Siding Spring/(2343) Siding Spring"
{
	ParentBody "Sol"

	DiscMethod     "Imaging"
	DiscDate       "1979.06.25"
	
	AbsMagn     13.3
	SlopeParam  0.15

    Radius           2.5985
    RotationPeriod 	 2.10659
    AlbedoGeom       0.376
	
	Orbit
	{
		Epoch            2458000.5
		MeanMotion       0.2760356458825674
		SemiMajorAxis    2.336106316608147
		Eccentricity     0.254574495582628
		Inclination      1.766681301904908
		AscendingNode    218.0700007331135
		ArgOfPericenter  155.3152873046558
		MeanAnomaly      199.1421276919794
	}
}
Data on the comet:
Comet "Siding Spring 12/C|2013 A1 (Siding Spring)"
{
	ParentBody  "Sol"
	CometType  "C"
	AbsMagn     6
	SlopeParam  4
	Radius      2

	Orbit
	{
		Epoch            2456956.0012
		PericenterDist   1.39944
		Eccentricity     1.00042
		Inclination      129.024
		AscendingNode    300.967
		ArgOfPericenter  2.4315
		MeanAnomaly		 0
	}
}
 
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31 Jul 2017 22:25

I am not familiar with the standards on comet designations. Sorry!
I have been encountering two issues when creating asteroids for SE.

The first is on the naming of asteroids that have a proper or temporary designation and have a minor planet designation too. When an object has both of these should the object only be given one name in SE (e.g. (2577) Litva), or should it have two names separated by a forward slash (e.g. Litva/(2577) Litva)?

The second issue I have is that while I was looking at many of the binary asteroids we added in SE I noticed that in game many of the moons do not have inclination relative to the ecliptic. This is because SE does not randomly generate inclinations for catalog objects that have unknown inclinations. Is it fine to leave this as is or should i be setting all moons with unknown inclinations to use the "equator" reference plane (so moons have the same inclination as their primary's obliquity)?
 
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01 Aug 2017 02:31

should it have two names separated by a forward slash (e.g. Litva/(2577) Litva)?
Yes
should i be setting all moons with unknown inclinations to use the "equator" reference plane (so moons have the same inclination as their primary's obliquity)?
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01 Aug 2017 10:02

I am not familiar with the standards on comet designations. Sorry!
That is not a problem. No one can know everything. And we learn new things all the time.
 
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02 Aug 2017 19:25

I have decided to start back from the beginning and sort through any low numbered asteroids that were missed. Here are main belt objects 2535 Hemeenlinna and 2623 Zech.
Also, has SE been given a way to insert forward-slashes as an actual part of an object's name yet?
Asteroid "Zech/(2623) Zech"
{
    ParentBody  "Sun"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius        3.805
    RotationPeriod  2.7401

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    2.2548
        Period            3.3858
        Eccentricity    0.2340
        Inclination        4.05676
        AscendingNode    349.13
        ArgOfPericenter    22.566
        MeanAnomaly        33.517
        RefPlane        "Ecliptic"
    }
}

Asteroid "S2014 (2623) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(2623) Zech"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      1.105

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    3.209e-7
        Period            0.013369
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}

Asteroid "Hemeenlinna/(2535) Hemeenlinna"
{
    ParentBody  "Sun"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius        4.6
    RotationPeriod  3.23106

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    2.2399
        Period            3.3523
        Eccentricity    0.07999
        Inclination        3.4279
        AscendingNode    172.8
        ArgOfPericenter    309.24
        MeanAnomaly        8.4927
        RefPlane        "Ecliptic"
    }
}

Asteroid "S2015 (2535) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(2535) Hemeenlinna"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      1

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    1.27e-7
        Period            0.002422
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}
 
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02 Aug 2017 19:50

Also, has SE been given a way to insert forward-slashes as an actual part of an object's name yet?
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03 Aug 2017 04:58

has SE been given a way to insert forward-slashes as an actual part of an object's name yet?
As Xbrain130 said, a pipe inserted in scripts will be seen as a slash in the program. This starting from SE 0.9.8.1 though.
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03 Aug 2017 08:20

I have decided to start back from the beginning and sort through any low numbered asteroids that were missed. Here are main belt objects 2535 Hemeenlinna and 2623 Zech.
Silicon, I am sorry but you did have a typo in the name of another of those 2 asteroids. The minor planet (2535) is named after a city in my country named Hämeenlinna, not Hemeenlinna.
 
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03 Aug 2017 08:42

Silicon, I am sorry but you did have a typo in the name of another of those 2 asteroids. The minor planet (2535) is named after a city in my country named Hämeenlinna, not Hemeenlinna.
No need to apologize. I don't want to get any names wrong (SE is an accurate game after all). I got the names from Johnston's Archive where it is listed as you say. I just misread the first "a" as an "e".
 
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03 Aug 2017 11:54

Here are four asteroids that were not in the game. 1453 Fennia, 2449 Kenos, 3433 Fehrenbach, and 3703 Volkonskaya.
Asteroid "Fennia/(1453) Fennia"
{
    ParentBody  "Sun"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius        3.48
    RotationPeriod  4.4121

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    1.897
        Period            2.6128
        Eccentricity    0.02829
        Inclination        23.673
        AscendingNode    7.0977
        ArgOfPericenter    255.07
        MeanAnomaly        339.9
        RefPlane        "Ecliptic"
    }
}

Asteroid "S|2007 (1453) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(1453) Fennia"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      0.975

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    1.003e-7
        Period            0.002623
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}

Asteroid "Kenos/(2449) Kenos"
{
    ParentBody  "Sun"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius        3
    RotationPeriod  3.8481

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    1.909
        Period            2.6377
        Eccentricity    0.16824
        Inclination        24.983
        AscendingNode    179.86
        ArgOfPericenter    102.26
        MeanAnomaly        244.82
        RefPlane        "Ecliptic"
    }
}

Asteroid "S|2015 (2449) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(2449) Kenos"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      0.7

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    6.685e-8
        Period            0.001807
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}

Asteroid "Fehrenbach/(3433) Fehrenbach"
{
    ParentBody  "Sun"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius        3.7
    RotationPeriod  3.916

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    2.3937
        Period            3.7035
        Eccentricity    0.18643
        Inclination        4.519
        AscendingNode    336.69
        ArgOfPericenter    74.277
        MeanAnomaly        328.47
        RefPlane        "Ecliptic"
    }
}

Asteroid "S|2015 (3433) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(3433) Fehrenbach"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      1.15

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    9.358e-8
        Period            0.002243
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}

Asteroid "Volkonskaya/(3703) Volkonskaya"
{
    ParentBody  "Sun"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius        1.73
    RotationPeriod  3.235

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    2.3314
        Period            3.5598
        Eccentricity    0.13438
        Inclination        6.7387
        AscendingNode    172.95
        ArgOfPericenter    151.86
        MeanAnomaly        17.859
        RefPlane        "Ecliptic"
    }
}

Asteroid "S|2005 (3703) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(3703) Volkonskaya"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      0.685

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    5.21e-8
        Period            0.002738
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}
Also here are two recently discovered asteroid moons. One is for Camilla, bringing it's total moons to 2. The other is for 113 Amalthea.
Asteroid "S|2016 (107) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(107) Camilla"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      1.75

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    2.273e-6
        Period            0.001369
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}

Asteroid "S|2007 (1453) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(1453) Fennia"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      0.975

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    1.003e-7
        Period            0.002623
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}
 
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03 Aug 2017 11:59

Sorry! Accidentally posted 1453 Fennia's moon a second time instead of 113 Amalthea. Here is the correct script.
How do i edit posts, I didn't want to make a new post just to fix an error.
Asteroid "S|2001 (113) 1"
{
    ParentBody  "(113) Amalthea"
    Class       "Asteroid"
    Radius      2.5

    Orbit
    {
        SemiMajorAxis    1.537e-6
        RefPlane        "Equator"
    }
}
 
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03 Aug 2017 12:46

You will be able to edit your posts after you reach 10 posts. Camilla and Fennia should be in the script in OP, I'll check parameters anyway :), I'll update the others soon[sup]TM[/sup]
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03 Aug 2017 15:04

You will be able to edit your posts after you reach 10 posts. Camilla and Fennia should be in the script in OP, I'll check parameters anyway :), I'll update the others soon[sup]TM[/sup]
Well I will get there soon enough. I also thought that the Camilla in the OP only had one moon, I must have missed it. Also I did miss Fennia, my bad.
If you are checking the parameters then you should know that I only include up to 5 significant digits when I copy parameters. Is this enough or should I include more?
 
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03 Aug 2017 17:57

I usually copy full parameters out of laziness, but I think there's no need. 5 digits should be enough.
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