[WikiEN-l] Asteroids

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Andrew Gray <shimgray at 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


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com