Well, there are TNOs which move at apparent rates (reflex of Earth's motion)
 of about an arcmin per day.  They also really move about a degree a year.

Cheers,

Kem

> Hi,
>
> Yes, the rapid movers will be kept track of in the orbits catalog.   The
> slow movers are all nearby stars, and move *very* slowly.   The fastest
> is Barnard's star at 10.3 arcsec per year.   So I think we're safe.
>
> Tim
>
> Jacek Becla wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I think the fast moving objects will be kept in a separate
>> catalog (called Orbit Catalog I think), and the issue I am raising
>> is for slow moving objects. So the question is whether slowly moving
>> object can move more than one chunk per night?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Jacek
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Serge Monkewitz wrote:
>>> Kem - I just assumed there was a seperate table for moving objects so
>>> this is good to hear, but ... what about really slow movers?  Will
>>> the MOP be able to detect and track an object that crosses a chunk
>>> over the course of 6 months? 1yr? Put another way, do we need to
>>> assume some kind of small but still significant (over the course of a
>>> release cycle) velocity for objects in the main object table
>>> (especially leading up to DR1 since the deep/moving pipelines won't
>>> have had very much time to discover/tell eachother about such objects)?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Serge
>>>
>>> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:43:06 -0800, Kem Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jacek,
>>>>
>>>> Your partitioning makes perfect sense, but there will be a few objects
>>>> which move more than quite a bit more than 1 chunk per night.   But, I
>>>> think we were going to be keeping the moving obectsd in a separate
>>>> table,
>>>> for this, as well as other, reasons.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Kem
>>>>
>>>>> Keywords: DataAccWG
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is a brand new suggestion how to partition Object table
>>>>> for the nightly processing use case:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~becla/tmp/objectTablePartitioningAtBase.doc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope we will have time to talk about it during the telecon tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jacek
>>>
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