big moving job

Ed Minchau wrote:

> can anybody tell me Ceres' mass, mean orbital radius, eccentricity,

> and so on? I am looking at doing some calculations on this problem

> and an earlier question about the deltaV from L2 to L5.

I googled for it and came up with:

http://www.brera.mi.astro.it/~carpino/astmas/fits/

Orbital elements are at:

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2000/00001.html

Orbital change calculations are tricky, particularly in a case
like this, because a continuous burn is likely to be required
(changing the orbit of ceres in a short burn is likely to
run into structural limitations.)