Usage - B612-Asteroid-Institute/orb_it GitHub Wiki

Orb_it has many different uses. It can load orbits from a local file, query orbits from JPL Horizons, and has python wrapper functions for the three integrators it supports.

It is recommended to use orb_it inside a Jupyter Notebook environment as the interactive viewing elements like the pandas dataframes and object classes would be obscured and clunky otherwise.

Outline of orb_it's Functionality

• runTest()
• Orbits Object (raiden)
  • loadOrb()
  • getOrbHorizons()
• Backend Functions (for individual supported integrator functionality see Integrators)
  • _propagateOrbits()
  • _generateEphemeris()
  • _orbitDetermination()