Wiki143:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Infoboxes

This page is where work is being done to come up with a generic table template to be used for organizing a list of facts about various astronomical bodies such as planets, natural satellites, and maybe also smaller bodies such as asteroids and comets (though I suspect that both asteroids and comets will be better served by having their own template design).

Non-stellar astronomical objects

Main template: Infobox planet

This template has been designed for the presentation of information on non-stellar astronomical objects: planets (including extrasolar planets), dwarf planets, moons and minor planets. For Template:Section link and Template:Section link, alternative templates exist.

The adjunct infobox-example is generated by the Template:Tl template for the minor planet Template:Mpl. This example uses the following wikicode:

{{Infobox planet
 | minorplanet     = yes
 | name            = {{mp|(78799) 2002 XW|93}}
 | background      = #C2E0FF
 | image           = 
 | caption         = 
 | discovery_ref   = &thinsp;ref name="MPC-78799" /><ref name="MPEC2003-Y55" />
 | discovered      = 10 December 2002
 | discoverer      = [[Palomar Observatory|Palomar]] {{small|team}}
 | discovery_site  = [[Palomar Observatory|Palomar Obs.]]
 | mp_name         = {{mp|(78799) 2002 XW|93}}
 | alt_names       = {{mp|2002 XW|93}}
 | named_after     = 
 | mp_category     = [[Trans-Neptunian object|TNO]]&thinsp;<ref name="MPC-78799" />
 | orbit_ref       = <ref name="jpldata" />
 | epoch           = 31 July 2016 ([[Julian day|JD]] 2457600.5)
 | uncertainty     = 3
 | observation_arc = {{nowrap|18.76 yr (6,852 days)}}
 | aphelion        = 46.780 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
 | perihelion      = 28.193 AU
 | semimajor       = 37.487 AU
 | eccentricity    = 0.2479
 | period          = 229.52 [[Julian year (astronomy)|yr]] (83,833 days)
 | mean_anomaly    = 141.33[[Degree (angle)|°]]
 | mean_motion     = {{Deg2DMS|0.0043|sup=ms}} / day
 | inclination     = 14.382°
 | asc_node        = 46.926°
 | arg_peri        = 247.23°
 | dimensions      = 584 [[Kilometre|km]]<ref name="Brown" /><br />565 km<ref name="tnolist" />
 | mass            = 
 | rotation        = 
 | albedo          = 
 | spectral_type   = 
 | abs_magnitude   = 5.5<ref name="jpldata" />
}}

Note

• for a clean syntax, citations should be listed separately in the article's "References" section Template:Crossreference.
• The above example uses a basic parameter selection for minor planets with some parameters such as Template:Para and Template:Para left empty.
• The template has an optional astron argument whose default value is helion; this allows its use to describe asteroid moons, as in the [[S/2000 (1998 WW31) 1|S/2000 (Template:Mp) 1]] example.
• Formatting unnamed minor planets
  • use Template:Tl to format unnamed minor planets: {{mp|(78799) 2002 XW|93}} displays as Template:Mp
  • use Template:Tl to add a link: {{mpl|(78799) 2002 XW|93}} displays as Template:Mpl
  • use Template:Tl to suppress the designation's number part: {{mpl-|78799|2002 XW|93}} displays as Template:Mpl-
  • for more details Template:Crossreference
  • to modify the article's title with subscripted index, use {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}. See first line in the edit window of article Template:Mpl

Comets

Template:Comet As discussed above, comets might be served better by a different template. Here is a suggestion for Template:Tl we can toy with until we are happy with it. Awolf002 00:23, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Useful sources

• JPL's SSD, Natural Satellite Physical Parameters
• JPL's SSD, Planetary Satellite Mean Orbital Parameters
• Solarviews
• The Nine Planets
• nifty Windows tool (AstOrb Browser) by Template:U used to generate an Template:Tl and footers as mentioned below

Sidebars

• Template:Distant minor planets sidebar - Small list of TNO-related topics

Footers

Planets

• Template:Solar System - Planets in the Solar System
  • Template:Uranus - Uranus's natural satellites
  • Template:Neptune - Neptune's natural satellites
  • Template:Mars - Mars' natural satellites

Planetary moons

• Template:Moons of Jupiter - Jupiter's natural satellites (exhaustive)
• Template:Moons of Saturn - Saturn's natural satellites (exhaustive)

Dwarf planets

• Template:Dwarf planets – for dwarf planets and candidates

Moons of dwarf planets

• Template:Moons of dwarf planets - Natural satellites of Pluto, Haumea and Eris

Minor planets

• Template:Minor planets navigator – sequential navigator for numbered minor planets Template:Crossreference

Cometary objects

• Template:PeriodicComets Navigator – sequential navigator for periodic comets

Any small Solar System body

• Template:Small Solar System bodies

Footer template examples

Particularly useful are the footer templates Template:Tl for minor planets, the footer template Template:Tl for comets, and the footer template Template:Tl for both minor planets and comets.

Example

Template:Tl for asteroid 61 Danaë

Example

Template:Tl for comet 9P/Tempel