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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: ITP: orbfit -- computation of the orbits of asteroids
- From: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:53:49 +0100
- Message-id: <20080104145349.13891.43147.reportbug@localhost>
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>
* Package name : orbfit
Version : 3.5.1
* URL : http://newton.dm.unipi.it/orbfit/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Fortran
Description : computation of asteroidal orbits
OrbFit is a software system allowing one to compute the orbits
of asteroids (soon also comets) starting from the observations,
to propagate these orbits, and to compute predictions on the future
(and past) position on the celestial sphere. It is a tool to be used
to find a well known asteroid, to recover a lost one, to attribute a
small group of observations, to identify two orbits with each other,
to study the future (and/or past) close approaches to Earth, thus to
assess the risk of an impact, and more.
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OrbFit has been developed by a team of professional scientists, working
in the field of asteroid and comet dynamics, orbit determination,
nonlinear and chaotic dynamics, and astrometry. The composition of the
OrbFit consortium, and the motivations for this work, are described
below.
Status of packaging:
A rudimentary package was prepared, upstream was contacted with a very
positive reply. The packaging bits will be injected to pkg-scicomp
in near future.
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