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About, Contact, api, etc.

See live site - pdes or prov_des is not set for large named objects, eg. Klio, Eva, Mathilde. They are set in full_name.

JPL also has info on comets, but I'm purposely omitting it right now. This may belong in a different visualization.

http://cas.sdss.org/dr6/en/proj/basic/asteroids/findingasteroids1.asp

This also includes generating sitemap.xml

Allow users to highlight multiple orbits, and don't hijack the viewport to follow individual objects.

I'm at ~40fps on my 11 inch macbook air @ 5000 objects. Desktop computer can go up to 50,000 fairly smoothly.

Thoughts on improving rendering capabilities:

• There is still some old CPU rendering/movement code. This should be removed.
• Group objects with similar orbits and treat them the same. If inclination, eccentricity, and semimajor axis are within a few percent of one another, should be good enough for the purposes of the simulation.
• Cache positions? This didn't help in the past, but now that rendering methods changed it may be worth it in some capacity.

eg. Anderson-LINEAR, a jfc

we're missing some important close approaches (eg. 12/12 approach)

3rd party sources should be loaded independently and merged into our own data model.

/3d is the only part of the site running on the old node app. Deprecate this app and move the /3d endpoint to a route in v2.

Most asteroids don't have delta-v computed for their orbits. Compute all delta-v based on this paper:

http://www.clowder.net/hop/railroad/Shoemaker_Helin_1978.pdf

A textbox with autocomplete that allows the user to input the designation of any asteroid and view its orbit.

http://astrometry.net/use.html

particularly ipad

On the main site, the back button is broken after you run a search, ie. the site does not behave as you'd expect. pushState or a similar solution would solve this.

Based on this paper:

http://www.clowder.net/hop/railroad/Shoemaker_Helin_1978.pdf

More easily crawlable, more up to date:

http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search

For browsers that don't support webgl.

I think gunzip goes to the wrong path

Heard from multiple people that it's pretty, but distracting if they are actually trying to understand the orbit of an object.

Atens, Apollos, etc

http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5082

This is a request I've gotten

Users have suggested that they want to make data or 3d views larger or smaller.

This would be nice...I don't think mongo is really a great choice for this.

longitude of perihelion

When selecting an object:

ReferenceError: cam is not defined
at setNeutralCameraPosition (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:962:66)
at animate (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:1027:6)
at processAsteroidRankings (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:1012:19)
at Asterank3D.me.processAsteroidRankings (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:997:50)
at http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:811:187
at Function. (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:776:531)
at Function.e.extend.each (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js:2:11776)
at Object.publish (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:776:497)
at http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:835:133
at https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.4/angular.min.js:92:162 angular.min.js:60
TypeError: Cannot call method 'remove' of undefined
at clearRankings (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:993:73)
at Asterank3D.me.clearRankings (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:992:29)
at http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:811:160
at Function. (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:776:531)
at Function.e.extend.each (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js:2:11776)
at Object.publish (http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:776:497)
at http://www.asterank.com/static/gen/packed.js?8615c334:835:133
at https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.4/angular.min.js:92:162
at i (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.4/angular.min.js:75:437)
at https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.4/angular.min.js:76:169 angular.min.js:60
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'remove' of undefined