PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = "Auto-generated by OLAF. Information entered into Olaf 2005-10-21" OBJECT = TARGET TARGET_NAME = "COMET" OBJECT = TARGET_INFORMATION TARGET_TYPE = "COMET" PRIMARY_BODY_NAME = "SUN" ORBIT_DIRECTION = "N/A" ROTATION_DIRECTION = "N/A" TARGET_DESC = " COMET Generic Object ==================== The COMET target name is used in datasets in which a large number of comets were observed. Specific comet names are used only for those datasets which are wholly concerned with one or a few comets. Note that most comets orbit the Sun, but in rare cases they may, in fact, be in orbit about a large planet. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, for example, was in orbit around Jupiter. The primary repository for comet information in the Planetary Data System (PDS) is the Small Bodies Node (SBN), located at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. The SBN archives include special data collections for comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, in addition to catalogs of comet properties and general surveys. Other Resources =============== For support services for observers, contact the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union. The Minor Planet Center operates at the Smithsonian AStrophysical Observatory. The SBN does not archive osculating (orbital) elements for any small bodies. However, Dr. E. Bowell of Lowell Observatory has made his personal database of asteroid orbital elements available to observers on request. ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Last update: 26 January 1999 A.C.Raugh PDS SBN University of Maryland" END_OBJECT = TARGET_INFORMATION OBJECT = TARGET_REFERENCE_INFORMATION REFERENCE_KEY_ID = "UNK" END_OBJECT = TARGET_REFERENCE_INFORMATION END_OBJECT = TARGET END