User:Serpentinite/EagleAsteroidBot

EagleAstroidBot
Operator: Eagle 101 talk Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automated Programming Language(s): Perl Function Summary: To create articles on asteroids with infoboxes in the userspace Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run Edit rate requested: Five per minute Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N Function details: The bot would create articles on asteroids with infoboxes in them, but only in the userspace, and the articles would have to manually be added to the mainspace after more detail is added.

Function
In essence the bot will be grabbing data from http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1 whose information is supposed to be in the public domain. The relevant information will go to infoboxes and help create stub class articles either in mainspace or in userspace. The bot will not overwrite an existing article. When the source is complete I will release it under GPL v2. ——  Eagle 101 Need help? 06:35, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Data that is grabbed by the bot is as follows:

Astroid: 1 Ceres Cat: Main-belt Asteroid Discovered: Discovered 1801-Jan-01 by Piazzi, G. at Palermo Orbital elements time: Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454200.5 (2007-Apr-10.0) TDB ---Orbital elements--- e: 0.0797601732738271 a: 2.76595642396794 q: 2.5453432603244 Q: 2.5453432603244 i: 10.5867116079954 node: 80.4069591479241 peri: 73.15073411326651 M: 215.800962246862 period: 1680.221074097372 4.60 n: .2142575197691738 ---Physical parameters--- H: 3.34 mag G: 0.12  diameter: diameter 952.4 extent: extent 974.6 x 909.4 GM: GM 63.2 rot_per: 9.075 h albedo: 0.090   BV: .713 mag UB: .426 mag spec_T: G   spec_B: C