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What information do the object pages contain?

Click on any designation in the target table, and a new page will open with more information about the object. There are several tabs:

  • The NEOfixer Plot at the top shows the NEOfixer priority score and other sub-scores as a function of time, beginning tonight and running for several days. This plot is interactive and can be panned and zoomed.  
  • Orbital elements and uncertainties, as written by Find_Orb
  • A topocentric ephemeris, displaying time, position, rates and magnitude, as well as other site-specific quantities such as predicted exposure time, estimated sky brightness, Galactic confusion, and 1-sigma positional uncertainties.
  • A plot showing the benefit that each tracklet provides to the calculation of the NEO's orbit.  The reporting latency of each tracklet is also plotted, along with the evolution of the orbit's U parameter.  Tracklets are sorted by time of reporting to the MPC.
  • A listing of the astrometric observations used to calculate the orbit
  • Residuals of each observation (from Find_Orb), along with a list of contributing MPC codes
  • An interactive orbit viewer which plots the object’s nominal orbit in the solar system

All these tabs except for the orbit viewer have API links at the bottom of each section.

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