2024-06-24, 05:26 PM
Hi BMD,
Thanks for the info about the differences in the orbital elements of 2024 MK and (415029) 2011 UL21. I don't know that I'd consider a 0.1 km object tiny. It would certainly leave a mark. NEOs with H=22 magnitude are generally considered to be ~140 m diameter and 2024 MK is slightly larger than that with H=21.76 magnitude. CNEOS has q=1.009168587376742 AU and lists it as an Apollo object and a PHA.
I saw your entry in the Support section regarding the use of kilometers where SkyTools expects AUs. As a temporary fix, can you manually convert the km units to AUs? Only a and q would need to be converted. I haven't used HORIZONS to obtain elements in a while. Can you request that the a and q parameters are generated as AU instead of km?
(415029) 2011 UL21 is already 13.9 magnitude according to ST4 Visual, but in Pyxis.
Phil S.
Thanks for the info about the differences in the orbital elements of 2024 MK and (415029) 2011 UL21. I don't know that I'd consider a 0.1 km object tiny. It would certainly leave a mark. NEOs with H=22 magnitude are generally considered to be ~140 m diameter and 2024 MK is slightly larger than that with H=21.76 magnitude. CNEOS has q=1.009168587376742 AU and lists it as an Apollo object and a PHA.
I saw your entry in the Support section regarding the use of kilometers where SkyTools expects AUs. As a temporary fix, can you manually convert the km units to AUs? Only a and q would need to be converted. I haven't used HORIZONS to obtain elements in a while. Can you request that the a and q parameters are generated as AU instead of km?
(415029) 2011 UL21 is already 13.9 magnitude according to ST4 Visual, but in Pyxis.
Phil S.