SsODNet: The Solar system Open Database Network

Abstract

The sample of Solar system objects has dramatically increased over the last decade. The amount of measured properties (e.g., diameter, taxonomy, rotation period, thermal inertia) has grown even faster. However, this wealth of information is spread over a myriad of articles, under many different designations per object. We provide a solution to the identification of Solar system objects from any of their multiple names or designations. We also compile and rationalize their properties to provide an easy access to them. We aim to continuously update the database as new measurements become available. We built a Web Service, SsODNet, that offers four access points, each corresponding to an identified necessity in the community: name resolution (quaero), compilation of a large corpus of properties (datacloud), determination of the best estimate among compiled values (ssoCard), and statistical description of the population (ssoBFT). The SsODNet interfaces are fully operational and freely accessible to everyone. The name resolver quaero translates any of the ~5.3 million designations of objects into their current official designation. The datacloud compiles about 105 million parameters (osculating and proper elements, pair and family membership, diameter, albedo, mass, density, rotation period, spin coordinates, phase function parameters, colors, taxonomy, thermal inertia, and Yarkovsky drift) from over 3,000 articles (and growing). For each of the known asteroids and dwarf planets (~1.2 million), a ssoCard providing a single best-estimate for each parameter is available. The SsODNet service provides these resources in a fraction of second upon query. Finally, the large ssoBFT table compiles all the best-estimates in a single table for population-wide studies.

References in corpus (33)

• Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties
• VOSA: Virtual Observatory SED Analyzer. An application to the Collinder 69 open cluster
• Solar System evolution from compositional mapping of the asteroid belt
• The Active Centaurs
• Compositional distributions and evolutionary processes for the near-Earth object population: Results from the MIT-Hawaii Near-Earth Object Spectroscopic Survey (MITHNEOS
• Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission
• The Size Distributions of Asteroid Families in the SDSS Moving Object Catalog 4
• Combining asteroid models derived by lightcurve inversion with asteroidal occultation silhouettes
• Asteroid Taxonomy from Cluster Analysis of Spectrometry and Albedo
• Asteroid pairs: a complex picture
• Thermophysical modeling of asteroids from WISE thermal infrared data - Significance of the shape model and the pole orientation uncertainties
• ADAM: a general method for using various data types in asteroid reconstruction
• The Composition of M-type asteroids II: Synthesis of spectroscopic and radar observations
• Asteroid phase curves from ATLAS dual-band photometry
• A million asteroid observations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• An ancient and a primordial collisional family as the main sources of X-type asteroids of the inner Main Belt
• Gaia Data Release 1. Cross-match with external catalogues - Algorithm and results
• Yarkovsky V-shape identification of asteroid families
• Physical characterisation of near-Earth asteroid (1620) Geographos. Reconciling radar and thermal-infrared observations
• Discovery of two TNO-like bodies in the asteroid belt
• The homogeneous internal structure of CM-like asteroid (41) Daphne
• Photometric survey, modelling, and scaling of long-period and low-amplitude asteroids
• Low thermal conductivity of the superfast rotator (499998) 2011 PT
• Shaping Asteroids with Genetic Evolution (SAGE)
• Detection of the Yarkovsky effect for C-type asteroids in the Veritas family
• Asteroid mass estimation with the robust adaptive Metropolis algorithm
• Asteroid shapes and thermal properties from combined optical and mid-infrared photometry inversion
• $V$-band photometry of asteroids from ASAS-SN: Finding asteroids with slow spin
• The non-convex shape of (234) Barbara, the first Barbarian
• The small binary asteroid (939) Isberga
• Similar origin for low- and high-albedo Jovian Trojans and Hilda asteroids ?
• A Taxonomic Study of Asteroid Families from KMTNet-SAAO Multi-band Photometry
• Yarkovsky effect detection and updated impact hazard assessment for Near-Earth Asteroid (410777) 2009 FD

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• Orbits of very distant asteroid satellites
• Close-to-fission dumbbell Jupiter-Trojan (17365) Thymbraeus
• An ancient L- type family associated to (460) Scania in the Middle Main Belt as revealed by Gaia DR3 spectra
• Speckle observations of the binary asteroid (22) Kalliope with C2PU/PISCO