2022-03-14, 06:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 2022-03-14, 06:53 PM by bigmasterdrago.)
You can use the recommended times at Horizons to fetch the osculating but the gravitational pull is so high. I could not replicate the track and collision location. The elements as you say are still at the standard epoch of 21 Jan and at the MPC and the Daily now. I used those and the original ones from first observation. Loaded a little vid of final minute of track into collision at correct impact location using gravity simulator specialty software. https://vimeo.com/687523301
I was able to do similar simulations in an old 8 bit software called Dance of the Planets in a galaxy far, far away in another time. Made a collision that I called Mars Kill. Dance will not run on modern operating systems.
It was strange as I was unable to update as a single MP download but it was in a new fetch of the full MPCORB. Or do as I did previously, a Horizons Osculating near date of impact. Just for the sake of "playing around" with this dark Mini Cooper sized rock from space.
I was able to do similar simulations in an old 8 bit software called Dance of the Planets in a galaxy far, far away in another time. Made a collision that I called Mars Kill. Dance will not run on modern operating systems.
It was strange as I was unable to update as a single MP download but it was in a new fetch of the full MPCORB. Or do as I did previously, a Horizons Osculating near date of impact. Just for the sake of "playing around" with this dark Mini Cooper sized rock from space.