Initial Release
Release date: April 2nd, 2024.
Please be advised this is our initial beta release. Not all asteroid classes are included. At this stage occultation predictions are computed only for the outer Solar System objects including those classified as Trojans, Centaurs, Kuiper Belt, and Inner Oort Cloud.
The total number of predictions also include a small percentage of events that happen strictly during the day, which are in very special cases of interest to some astronomers.
Below are the description of the main input sources and the outputs produced in this release.
| Description | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of asteroids with predictions (at release date) | 18,460 |
| Number of events (at release date) | 782,353 |
| Earliest prediction (at release date) | Jan, 1st 2024 |
| Latest prediction (at release date) | Jan, 1st 2025 |
| Asteroid dynamical classes included (at release date) | Centaur Trojan Kuiper Belt Object Inner Oort Cloud |
| Source of asteroids ephemerides | JPL/NASA |
| Source of planetary ephemerides | de440 - JPL/NASA |
| Leap second kernel | NAIF0012 - JPL/NASA |
| Source of star catalog | Gaia DR2 / ESA |