#!/usr/bin/perl # convert Minor Planet Electronic Circular, MPEC, to edb format # Sample: # Orbital elements: # 2003 UB313 # Epoch 2005 Aug. 18.0 TT = JDT 2453600.5 MPC # M 197.53790 (2000.0) P Q # n 0.00176902 Peri. 151.31153 -0.91258509 -0.02028701 # a 67.7091000 Node 35.87500 -0.34877687 -0.48266077 # e 0.4416129 Incl. 44.17700 +0.21340843 -0.87557240 # P 557 H -1.1 G 0.15 U 5 while (<>) { if (/Orbital elements/) { chomp ($name = <>); ($e,$y,$m,$d) = split (/ +/, <>); next unless ($e =~ /Epoch/); ($x,$M,$ep) = split (/[ ()]+/, <>); ($x,$n,$x,$P) = split (/ +/, <>); ($x,$a,$x,$N) = split (/ +/, <>); ($x,$e,$x,$i) = split (/ +/, <>); ($x,$x,$x,$H,$x,$G) = split (/ +/, <>); print "$name,e,$i,$N,$P,$a,$n,$e,$M,8/$d/$y,$ep,H$H,$G\n", } }