Comment 6 for bug 1405460

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gzotti (georg-zotti) wrote :

I think Alexander is right. I imported the elements from MPC list import, not the online search. Comet element sets should NOT have orbit_MeanAnomaly or orbit_MeanMotion entries, these don't make much sense for most comets!

So this is a duplicate of the bug which Alexander mentioned above. Do NOT comment away the test in line 463, or you risk a massive slowdown if you have many element sets.

These would be the elements if imported via list import, and these work:

[c2014q2%28lovejoy%29]
orbit_Inclination=80.3027
slope_parameter=8.4
coord_func=comet_orbit
parent=Sun
orbit_ArgOfPericenter=12.3949
orbit_PericenterDistance=1.290357
lighting=false
radius=5
type=comet
dust_brightnessfactor=1.5
absolute_magnitude=4
name=C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
orbit_Eccentricity=0.997796
orbit_good=267
orbit_TimeAtPericenter=2457052.56909722
albedo=0.1
orbit_AscendingNode=94.9755
color=1.0, 1.0, 1.0
dust_lengthfactor=0.4
dust_widthfactor=1.5
tex_map=nomap.png

[15pfinlay]
type = comet
radius = 5
orbit_good = 176
absolute_magnitude = 12
dust_brightnessfactor = 1.5
name = 15P/Finlay
orbit_Inclination = 6.799
dust_lengthfactor = 0.4
coord_func = comet_orbit
orbit_ArgOfPericenter = 347.5531
orbit_PericenterDistance = 0.975903
albedo = 0.1
orbit_TimeAtPericenter = 2457018.55689815
dust_widthfactor = 1.5
lighting = false
orbit_AscendingNode = 13.7777
tex_map = nomap.png
color = 1.0, 1.0, 1.0
slope_parameter = 4
parent = Sun
orbit_Eccentricity = 0.720178