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Minor planets (asteroids, comets, Kuiperoids, etc)

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! {{tl|minor planet}}

! {{tl|Minor Planet}}

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{{minor planet|
| name = 14 Irene
| e = 0.168
| i = 9.106
| q = 2.150 AU
| omega = 96.473
| a = 2.585
| asc_node=86.493
| Q = 3.020
| M = 326.489
| P= 4.16
| n = ?
| TP =?
}}

{{ Minor Planet |
| name=14 Irene
| discoverer=John Russell Hind
| discovery_date=May 19, 1851
| designations=A906 QC;
A913 EA;
1952 TM
| category=Main belt
| epoch=July 14, 2004 (JD 2453200.5)
| semimajor=386.730 Gm (2.585 AU)
| perihelion=321.602 Gm (2.150 AU)
| aphelion=451.858 Gm (3.020 AU)
| eccentricity=0.168
| period=1518.176 d (4.16 a)
| inclination=9.106°
| arg_peri=96.473°
| asc_node=86.493°
| mean_anomaly=326.489°
| speed=18.52 km/s
| dimensions=181.8 km ^{[http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/parallax/phot/LCSUMPUB.TXT]}
| mass=6.3×10¹⁸ kg
| density=2 ? g/cm³
| gravity=0.051 m/s²
| escape_velocity=0.096 km/s
| rotation=0.6275 d ^{[http://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html]}
| spectral_class=S-type asteroid ^{[http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/parallax/phot/LCSUMPUB.TXT]}
| abs_mag=6.30
| albedo=0.160 ^{[http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/parallax/phot/LCSUMPUB.TXT]}
| temperature=~234 K }}

The example on the far right is the recommended table format for minor planets —note the recommended unit links. It is generated by the {{tl|Minor Planet}} template (now replaced by the {{tl|Infobox Planet}} with the minorplanet flag; see below). The template has an optional astron argument whose default value is helion; this allows its use to describe asteroid moons, as in the S/2000 (1998 WW31) 1 example.

Urhixidur wrote a nifty Windows tool that can greatly facilitate preparation of these. The most recent version can be downloaded from http://www.bigfoot.com/~D.U.Thibault (at the bottom of the page, under the heading "Delphi 7 and Wikipedia").

A more compact form of this with just the orbital elements is on the near right {{tl|Minor planet}} (note the lower case 'p').

The two are incompatible at the moment, something which Nicholas intends to fix one day.

A few short-hand templates are useful when dealing with asteroids with provisional designations. They are Template:mp, Template:mpl, and Template:mpl-. Mpl ("minor planet link") is used to write a link, like so {{mpl|(15874) 1996 TL|66}} = {{mpl|(15874) 1996 TL|66}}, whilst mp ("minor planet") saves you from typing <sub></sub> if you'd rather not: {{mp|(15874) 1996 TL|66}} = {{mp|(15874) 1996 TL|66}}. Mpl- is used with numbered asteroids that have kept (so far) their provisional designations: {{mpl-|15760|1992 QB|1}} = {{mpl-|15760|1992 QB|1}} instead of {{mpl|(15760) 1992 QB|1}}.

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Template:Small Solar System bodies
Template:Minor planets navigator – sequential navigator for numbered minor planets {{crossreference|(see LOMP)}}
Template:PeriodicComets Navigator – sequential navigator for periodic comets
Template:Dwarf planets - for dwarf planets and candidates

Particularly useful are {{tl|Minor planets navigator}} and {{Small Solar System bodies}}. Scroll down beyond the table to the right to see examples of these.

{{MinorPlanets Navigator|13 Egeria|PageName=14 Irene|15 Eunomia}}

Replacement template:

{{Infobox planet | discovery=yes | physical_characteristics = yes | bgcolour=#FFFFC0 |

| name=14 Irene

| discoverer=John Russell Hind

| discovered=May 19, 1851

| alt_names=A906 QC;
A913 EA;
1952 TM

| mp_category=Main belt

| orbit_ref={{cite web

|date=2008-04-14

|title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 14 Irene

|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=14

|accessdate=2008-11-27}}

| epoch=July 14, 2004 (JD 2453200.5)

| semimajor=386.730 Gm (2.585 AU)

| perihelion=321.602 Gm (2.150 AU)

| aphelion=451.858 Gm (3.020 AU)

| eccentricity=0.168

| period=1518.176 d (4.16 a)

| inclination=9.106°

| arg_peri=96.473°

| asc_node=86.493°

| mean_anomaly=326.489°

| avg_speed=18.52 km/s

| dimensions=167x153x139km
(152km)

| mass=8.2{{e|18}} kg{{cite web

|date=2008

|title=Recent Asteroid Mass Determinations

|publisher=Personal Website

|author=Jim Baer

|url=http://home.earthlink.net/~jimbaer1/astmass.txt

|accessdate=2008-11-27}}

| density=4.42±1.59 g/cm³

| surface_grav=0.051 m/s²

| escape_velocity=0.096 km/s

| rotation=0.6275 d (15.06 h){{cite web |url=http://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html |title=Asteroid Lightcurve Paramaters |accessdate= 2008-11-03 |publisher=Planetary Science Institute |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060614093519/http://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html |archivedate=2006-06-14 }}

| spectral_type=S-type asteroid

| magnitude = 8.84 to 12.25

| abs_magnitude=6.30

| albedo=0.159

| angular_size = 0.17" to 0.052"

| single_temperature=~170 K }}

=Comets=

{{ Comet |

| name=9P/Tempel; Tempel 1

| image=250px
Nucleus imaged by the Deep Impact impactor

| discoverer=Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel

| discovery_date=April 3, 1867

| designations=9P/1867 G1; 1867 II;
9P/1873 G1; 1873 I; 1873a
1879 III; 1879b
9P/1967 L1; 1966 VII
9P/1972 A1; 1972 V; 1972a
1978 II; 1977i
1983 XI; 1982j
1989 I; 1987e1
1994 XIX; 1993c

| epoch=March 6, 2006

| semimajor=3.122 AU

| perihelion=1.506 AU

| aphelion=4.737 AU

| eccentricity=0.5175

| period=5.515 a

| inclination= 10.5301°

| last_p=July 5, 2005

| next_p=2011

}}

As discussed above, comets might be served better by a different template. Here is a suggestion for {{tl|Comet}} we can toy with until we are happy with it. Awolf002 00:23, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

{{PeriodicComets Navigator|8P/Tuttle|PageName=9P/Tempel|10P/Tempel}}