Asteroid Distance Calculator
Version 0.9
http://wschurman.com/adc

Instructions:

• Enter the two observatory's coordinates in decimal degrees (ex. 130.245323°). These will be stored for next time, but can be changed.
• Enter the declination and hour angle of the asteroid both in degrees, which may require some conversion. Enter the parallax angle in arc-seconds.
• Click Calculate

Source code for the calculator can be viewed at
http://wschurman.com/tools/adc/scripts/calc_parralax.js
Everything should be working, see comments in source for areas of concern.

Based off:
Near Earth Objects: A Brief Review and A Student Project
http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/pub/neo_parallax.pdf

Lee M. Smallwood and Debora M. Katz
Department of Physics, United Stated Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 21402
dkatz@usna.edu

Michael W. Richmond
Physics Department, RIT, Rochester, NY, 14623
mwrsps@rit.edu

Inspired by http://www.explosm.net/comics/1798/