Space Science with Python - Part 16: Comet Database
GitHub Link of today's session: https://github.com/ThomasAlbin/Astron...
Our first small space (data) scientific insight project: Comets! But before we can start to dive into the analysis of the Solar System's comet population we need to fetch some data, parse it and create a database that we can use for our future data science tutorials!
Since the amount of data is really small, we will use SQLite; an embedded version of an SQL database that does not require an SQL server and infrastructure overhead. With an SQLite Browser / Viewer you can easily take a look into the data without using Python.
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Minor Planet Center (Data): https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/data
C/2021 A1 (Comet Leonard) - Twitter Infos: / comet2021a1
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How to setup our dev-environment: • Space Science with Python - Part 3: Setup ...
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Content
0:00 Introduction
1:00 MPC Data / Comet Leonard
3:46 Python - Auxiliary Functions
5:35 Python - Get the data
8:15 Python - Parsing the Epoch
16:36 Python - Some more orbit features
19:19 Python - Comet Database using SQLite
24:57 Summary & Outlook
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There is a lot to do and to learn and I hope you will join the journey. Meanwhile, if you have questions or ideas, reach out to me via:
Twitter: / mrastrothomas
Reddit: / mrastrothomas
GitHub: https://github.com/ThomasAlbin
Or drop a comment!
Talk to you later,
Thomas