POSTER P610: New software tools provided by the Minor Planet Center

Theme: Software, tools and standards for Solar System, heliophysics, and planetary research

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In recent years the  Minor Planet Center (MPC) has started to transform its processing and publication systems to better handle the increasing volume of submitted data. This has included both the update of older processes and systems, as well as the development of completely new functionality and services.

In this poster I will present some of the new and in-development software tools, such as:

• Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (MPECs) that are again searchable via The Astrophysics Data System (ADS);
• Web-interface and APIs to allow the reporting of cometary activity;
• An API to provide query access to the exposures (sky coverage) database.

In addition to that I will also show how to access common information from the MPC homepage, as well as provide links to relevant web pages where new software tools or existing upgrades can be found.