Hi, im doing a sceince fair project about a Near Earth Object being captured by Earth's gravity. I just bought Starry Night Pro 4.5 and its great and all minus one snag. Im trying to find object SS84 in the sky. so i need to program to locate it. but it doenst have it and it says i can download the object well thats total :bs: and im trying to plot the asteroid in the program manualy with one problem. at http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov they list the orbital elements of object 2003 SS84 in something called Perehelion and Starry Night's orbital elements are in Paracentric or something like that. WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO FIND THIS ASTEROID?

go here http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eph?sstr=100377&s_sb=Search&c_time=%2B20031013000000.000%2C%2B20031028000000.000%2C0%2C1%2Cd%2C%2CC&c_loc=500%3BGeocentric%3B0.%2C0.%2C0.%2Cm&c_quan=0108c0101%2CJHA%2C%2C0

 

be sure to click all appropriate links to enter your pertinent info. then click "generate ephemeris" to get your map with coordinates in any way that you want from alt/az or ra/dec or what ever...

 

hope this helps.