PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 /* File Characteristics */ RECORD_TYPE = FIXED_LENGTH RECORD_BYTES = 138 FILE_RECORDS = 6842 /* Data Object Pointers */ ^TABLE = "DISCOVER.TAB" /* Identification Keywords */ DATA_SET_ID = "EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTNAMES-DISCOVERY-V1.0" PRODUCT_NAME = "Asteroid Names, Designations, and Discovery Circumstances" PRODUCT_ID = "DISCOVER-DISCOVER-199604" INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "N/A" INSTRUMENT_NAME = "N/A" TARGET_NAME = ASTEROID START_TIME = "N/A" STOP_TIME = "N/A" PRODUCT_CREATION_TIME = 1996-03-29 /* Peer Review Date */ RECORD_FORMAT = "(i5,1x,a17,1x,a10,2x,i4,1x,i2,1x,i2,1x, a18,3x,a57,3x,a5)" /* Data Object Descriptions */ OBJECT = TABLE ROWS = 6842 ROW_BYTES = 138 INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = ASCII COLUMNS = 9 DESCRIPTION = " Names, designations, and discovery circumstances for the numbered asteroids, sorted in order of catalog number. This file represents an extension of a file originally prepared by Pilcher (1979) for the old Tucson Revised Index of Asteroid Data (TRIAD) and updated in Pilcher (1989) for the Asteroids II database. The data for asteroids numbered 4045 and higher were either provided by the Minor Planet Center or extracted from the Minor Planet Circulars, which are published by the Minor Planet Center on behalf of Commission 20 of the International Astronomical Union. In some cases, an institution or survey is credited with the discovery rather than an individual. No attempt has been made to correct the inconsistencies in the presentation of names (that is, some names are given with initials and some are not), or in the way locations are specified (for example, Pilcher distinguishes between the Lowell Observatory and Anderson Mesa locations in Flagstaff). Due to the limitations of the ASCII character set, diacritical marks are lost in this machine-readable form. This version of the data set contains the names, designations, and discovery circumstances for all asteroids numbered as of the 1996 February 4 batch of Minor Planet Circulars, and includes 6842 entries. References: Pilcher, F. 1979. Circumstances of minor planet discovery. In Asteroids (T. Gehrels, Ed.), pp. 1130-1154. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson. Pilcher, F. 1989. The circumstances of minor planet discovery. In Asteroids II (R. P. Binzel, T. Gehrels, and M. S. Matthews, Eds.), pp. 1002-1033. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson. " OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "ASTEROID CATALOG NUMBER" DATA_TYPE = ASCII_INTEGER START_BYTE = 1 BYTES = 5 FORMAT = I5 END_OBJECT = COLUMN OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "ASTEROID NAME" DATA_TYPE = CHARACTER START_BYTE = 7 BYTES = 17 FORMAT = A17 END_OBJECT = COLUMN OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "PRINCIPAL PROVISIONAL DESIGNATION" DATA_TYPE = CHARACTER START_BYTE = 25 BYTES = 10 FORMAT = A10 END_OBJECT = COLUMN OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "DISCOVERY YEAR" DATA_TYPE = ASCII_INTEGER START_BYTE = 37 BYTES = 4 FORMAT = I4 END_OBJECT = COLUMN OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "DISCOVERY MONTH" DATA_TYPE = ASCII_INTEGER START_BYTE = 42 BYTES = 2 FORMAT = I2 END_OBJECT = COLUMN OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "DISCOVERY DAY" DATA_TYPE = ASCII_INTEGER START_BYTE = 45 BYTES = 2 FORMAT = I2 END_OBJECT = COLUMN OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "DISCOVERY LOCATION" DATA_TYPE = CHARACTER START_BYTE = 50 BYTES = 18 FORMAT = A18 END_OBJECT = COLUMN OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "DISCOVERER NAMES" DATA_TYPE = CHARACTER START_BYTE = 71 BYTES = 57 FORMAT = A57 END_OBJECT = COLUMN OBJECT = COLUMN NAME = "NOTE CODE" DESCRIPTION = "The text of the notes are included in the file 'discnote.tab'. " DATA_TYPE = CHARACTER START_BYTE = 131 BYTES = 5 FORMAT = A5 END_OBJECT = COLUMN END_OBJECT = TABLE END