Table information for 'mp3c_main.body'

General

Table Description: Minor body objects with their primary names.

This table is available for ADQL queries and through the TAP endpoint.

Resource Description: This service publishes minor body data, including orbits, masses, diameters, albedos, families and magnitudes. The tables have the same format as those used by the Minor Planet Physical Properties Catalogue (MP3C) user-friendly interface at https://mp3c.oca.eu/ and let you run more complex queries than the web interface.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'Minor Planet Physical Properties Catalogue - Website mirror'

Resource Reference URL: https://mp3c.oca.eu/

Citing this table

This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference 2013DPS....4520829T (ADS BibTeX entry for the publication) either in addition to or instead of the service reference.

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:MP3C_Web,
  year=2022,
  title={Minor Planet Physical Properties Catalogue - Website mirror},
  author={Delbo, Marco},
  url={https://dachs.oca.eu/tableinfo/mp3c_main.body},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {OCA} Data Center}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
bid Bid Body ID representing an asteroid or dwarf planet across tables. Useful for JOIN queries. Body IDs are consistent only within a given version of the database and may change with time. N/A meta.id
name Name Main name of body (asteroid or dwarf planet) as attributed by the name with lowest priority index in the "name" table of all body designations. N/A meta.id

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

VOResource

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