Asteroid orbit determination code using the Method of Gauss (orbit_det.py
) and an experimental JAX AutoGrad (autograd.py
) approach for comparison. Overall, the Method of Gauss approach is a lot more effective than AutoGrad since it fundamentally uses prior knowledge about the physical equations surrounding graviation while AutoGrad is simply brute forcing the optimization process.
obs.txt
contains observations of asteroid 2004 LJ1 made thorugh the Sierra Remote Observatory and the Central Washington University Observatory.