NEO Confirmation Page Ephemeris Generator

Status: In development

Overview

• neocp_ephem: An ephemeris-generating tool for querying the JPL Scout database for short-shelf- life NEOs that have not yet been assigned a Horizons identifier. This tool will turn the returned data into a file that can be ingested into the LDT TCS for observations.

Also include MPC and/or AstOrb (Lowell) and/or IMCCE (in France) as sources for this tool.

Usage

The script usage can be displayed by calling the script with the -h option: