Space Science with Python - Part 16: Comet Database

Our first small space (data) scientific insight project: Comets! But before we can start to dive into the analysis of the Solar System's comet population we need to fetch some data, parse it and create a database that we can use for our future data science tutorials!

Since the amount of data is really small, we will use SQLite; an embedded version of an SQL database that does not require an SQL server and infrastructure overhead. With an SQLite Browser / Viewer you can easily take a look into the data without using Python.

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Content
0:00 Introduction
1:00 MPC Data / Comet Leonard
3:46 Python - Auxiliary Functions
5:35 Python - Get the data
8:15 Python - Parsing the Epoch
16:36 Python - Some more orbit features
19:19 Python - Comet Database using SQLite
24:57 Summary & Outlook
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There is a lot to do and to learn and I hope you will join the journey. Meanwhile, if you have questions or ideas, reach out to me via:

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Talk to you later,
Thomas