About the program

The program for MOID calculations, presented on this website, is suitable for any confocal, elliptical orbits. It uses the idea of rotating meridional plane and calculates the MOIDs numerically. The authors hope that its speed and accuracy make it applicable not only for single orbital pairs, but also in massive calculations for mapping purposes. The code of the program was written and compiled using Gfortran 95 and is available in section Downloads.


The authors
Hans Rickman
Space Research Centre
Polish Academy of Sciences,
ul. Bartycka 18 A, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Uppsala University,
Box 516, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
e-mail: Hans.Rickman@physics.uu.se

Hans Rickman is also responsible for the
content of this website.
Tomasz Wiśniowski
Space Research Centre
Polish Academy of Sciences,
ul. Bartycka 18 A, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland
e-mail: twisniowski@cbk.waw.pl



Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Polish National Science Center under Grant No. 2011/01/B/ST9/05442. H.R. is also indebted to Grant No. 74/10:3 of the Swedish National Space Board.

The program for MOID calculation uses the database of orbital elements of numbered asteroids, downloaded from IAU Minor Planet Center http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/mpc.html


Website construction
Łukasz Chrustek
e-mail: lukasz@chustek.net

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