About DAMIT
What DAMIT is
The Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (DAMIT) is a database of three-dimensional asteroid models that were derived using inversion techniques. The database and its web interface is operated by The Astronomical Institute of the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
See Documentation for a detailed description of DAMIT.
Licensing and citations
Except where otherwise stated, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
If you use DAMIT for your research, please
- Always cite the original paper where a given model was published. DAMIT serves models derived by many different researchers; please give credit to those people.
- Also, cite the paper Ďurech et al. (2010), DAMIT: a database of asteroid models, A&A, 513, A46 (ADS: 2010A&A...513A..46D, preprint: PDF 1.4 MiB)
- Give a link to this website, e.g. https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/
If you use DAMIT for non-scientific work, please
- Give a link to this website, e.g. https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/
Technical details
Web address: https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/
DAMIT makes use of the following technologies:
The JavaScript code for the visualisation of DAMIT models (sky projection) is based on damitjs by František Jahoda. The ephemerides for the visualisation are retrieved from The Virtual Observatory Solar System Object Ephemeris Generator.
Contacts
Josef Ďurech – project leader, software developerAstronomical Institute of the Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic
durech@sirrah.troja.mff.cuni.cz Mikko Kaasalainen – scientific collaborator, software developer
Department of Mathematics
Tampere University of Technology
Tampere, Finland
https://math.tut.fi/inversegroup Josef Hanuš – scientific collaborator, software developer
Astronomical Institute of the Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic
hanus.home@gmail.com Vojtěch Sidorin – backend/frontend developer
vojtech.sidorin@gmail.com
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Ladislav Šubr for his help with the backend server.