dahlend/kete
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Kete Solar System Survey tools
14 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2025-04-28 · latest 2026-09-30
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…positions for NASA telescopes, if you are interested in orbit prop you may be interested in: https://github.com/dahlend/kete I made an asteroid only version of yours earlier this year, where it does full orbit propagation in workers:…
comment by ddahlen · 2026-09-30 · in Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites -
…usually means there is no way it could ever be dangerous. Here is some of the orbit code I used: https://github.com/dahlend/kete
comment by ddahlen · 2026-09-28 · in Comet SWAN26Q – The unconfirmed Scout object warrants monitoring, not concern -
…Which is being used on SphereX, NEO Surveyor, and the Roman telescopes to identify known asteroids. https://github.com/dahlend/kete
comment by ddahlen · 2026-09-14 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) -
…a new numerical integration method which should enable me to predict orbits from observations. https://github.com/dahlend/kete I'm working on modeling the motion of observed dust particles coming off of comet 67P, here is are some example…
comment by ddahlen · 2025-09-30 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) -
…Its hanging out for a while near us. Shameless plug for my software I used compute it: https://github.com/dahlend/kete
comment by ddahlen · 2025-09-26 · in New Quasi-Moon Discovered Orbiting Earth, but It's Been Around for Decades -
…mechanics of asteroids/comets, here are my open source (python/rust) orbital integration tools: https://github.com/dahlend/kete
comment by ddahlen · 2025-08-19 · in A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf] -
…I have an open source rust/python package for accurate orbital calculations of asteroids/comets: https://github.com/dahlend/kete
comment by ddahlen · 2025-07-11 · in Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper -
…in orbital dynamics and formerly wrote the asteroid simulation code used on several NASA missions: https://github.com/dahlend/kete
comment by ddahlen · 2025-07-03 · in Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System -
I posted a couple of months ago: https://github.com/dahlend/kete Research grade orbit calculations for asteroids and comets (rust/python). I began working on this when I worked at caltech on the Near Earth Object Surveyor telescope…
comment by ddahlen · 2025-06-29 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) -
…Source: I worked at Caltech on NEOS, I wrote the code they use to predict known asteroid orbits: https://github.com/dahlend/kete Edit: I failed to mention that Rubin is a big deal for a lot of time-domain astronomy, I'm just being selfish…
comment by ddahlen · 2025-06-20 · in Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy -
…I was allowed to open source it and I am planning on making it the basis of my PhD research: https://github.com/dahlend/kete It can predict the location of the entire catalog of known asteroids to generally within the uncertainty of our…
comment by ddahlen · 2025-04-28 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)