--- Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
This group of articles should, at least in theory, be something that could be filled out with bots - the basic asteroid article is "was discovered by A on B, named for C, part of group D, here are orbital elements E and very sketchy composition details F, external links to databases G and H." The main reason this is simple is that for asteroids studied in detail, we've usually written the article already!
Not a good idea since that is all we know about most asteroids and those data would be far more useful in a big table of asteroids, not on individual pages for each space rock.
In fact, the basics are already in the List of asteroids tables.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroids_%2839001-40000%29
We can just add to the table.
-- mav
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