Jul 2011
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The Minor Planet Bulletin (ISSN 1052-8091). Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Obse
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The lack of a central repository for asteroid time-series (lightcurve) photometry has put large amounts of data at risk of being forever lost as computers crash and the original researchers pass on. These data are vital to critical current work on theories regarding the origin and evolution of the asteroid population as a whole and of specific families/groups or types of asteroids. A first step toward creating such a repository is defining a minimum set of data and format for submitting current and future observations. The Asteroid Lightcurve Data Exchange Format (ALCDEF) has been proposed by the authors for this first step. In a recent development, the Minor Planet Center, long the recognized central repository for asteroid astrometry data, has agreed to host a site where researchers can upload and download asteroid photometry using the ALCDEF standard. We outline other steps that have been taken to have the ALCDEF standard generally accepted as well as describe a new gateway web site that leads to the ALCDEF pages as well as the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) site commonly used by many asteroid photometrists.
Harris Alan W.
Stephens Robert D.
Warner Brian D.
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