<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by mhelland</i>
<br />Say I wanted to look at raw data of orbits for planets and their satellites. What are my options?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">How raw? If you go to the purest form of the data as collected, that is available at the National Space Sciences Data Center (NSSDC). But you need to be an astronomer to use it because it would take years to learn how to reduce data that "raw".
A more practical option is to use an orbit generator in one of the commercial software programs that simulates everything in the sky and allows orbit computation for existing or new or hypothetical bodies. My knowledge of these programs is dated. Perhaps someone else was a more current recommendation. -|Tom|-
