Dynamic Maps

Release date: February 11th, 2025.

Main updates include dynamic maps in the occultation detail page the introduction of a subscription service.

At this stage occultation predictions are computed for the outer Solar System objects including Trojans, Centaurs, and Kuiper Belt objects, and now also the Near-Earth Asteroids.

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)	33,673
Number of events (at release date)	33,582,132
Earliest prediction (at release date)	Jan, 1st 2024
Latest prediction (at release date)	Mar, 31st 2026
Asteroid dynamical classes included (at release date)	Centaur Trojan Kuiper Belt Object Near-Earth Asteroids
Source of asteroids ephemerides	JPL/NASA
Source of planetary ephemerides	de440 - JPL/NASA
Leap second kernel	NAIF0012 - JPL/NASA
Source of star catalog	Gaia DR3 / ESA