NAME

Astro::Catalog::Query::MPC - A query request to the Minor Planet Center's Minor Planet Checker.

SYNOPSIS

$mpc = new Astro::Catalog::Query::MPC( RA => $ra,
                                       Dec => $dec,
                                       Year => $year,
                                       Month => $month,
                                       Day => $day,
                                       Radmax => $radius,
                                       Limit => $limit,
                                       ObsCode => $obscode,
                                      );

my $catalog = $mpc->querydb();

DESCRIPTION

This module provides an object-oriented interface to the Minor Planet Center's Minor Planet Checker webform available at http://scully.harvard.edu/~cgi/CheckMP. It stores information about asteroids found in a search radius at a specific epoch in an Astro::Catalog object.

The object will by default pick up the proxy information from the HTTP_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment variables. See the LWP::UserAgent documentation for details.

See Astro::Catalog::BaseQuery for the catalog-independent methods.

REVISION

$Id: MPC.pm,v 1.2 2005/06/16 01:57:35 aa Exp $

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License.

AUTHORS

Brad Cavanagh <b.cavanagh@jach.hawaii.edu>