The 4th Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog
Updated nomenclature for ASTORB 2022
The 4th Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog lists astrometric and photometric data for 471,569 moving objects observed prior to March 2007. Of those, 220,101 are linked to 104,449 unique objects from ASTORB file, and their orbital elements are also listed. This is a cumulative release, and it supersedes the first , the second , and the third releases. Unlike the first three releases, this fourth release includes data obtained in non-photometric conditions and extra care is needed in data analysis!
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog was published 2008, and its nomenclature is compatible with this data from the Astorb database. Here we present a version of the ASTEROID catalog updated to the Astorb file dated 16/07/2022. Totaling 117689 observations (download).
Photometry of asteroid 76473
Example of photometry that can be obtained with SDSS-MOC, the asteroid discovered 2000-03-26 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Asteroid main belt
The main asteroid belt analytical elements of the database objects.
"Systematic method to identify possible candidate V-type asteroids using the SDSS-MOC data. Our method is based on the Principal Components Analysis (PCA) of the data"
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ROIG, F.; RIBEIRO, A. O.; GIL-HUTTON, R. Taxonomy of asteroid families among the Jupiter Trojans: comparison between spectroscopic data and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey colors. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 483, n. 3, p. 911-931, 2008.
Soft in python (download)