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Hey guys, anyone know of a good directory for space rocks?  I need to find a suitable satelite facility to 36 Atalante to serve as the High Energy Research Labrotory - you know, for all those potentially dangerous projects like Gravity Bombs and Nuclear Power.  (What's fun is that rather than just use the acronym, HERL, any public documents will refer to it simply as various euphinisms for vomiting.)

The IAU Minor Planet Center has pretty much all the cataloged rocks listed, though to be honest if you want a rock orbiting Atalantae you're probably better off just making up one. Easier that way.
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Nah, not in orbit. In the neighborhood is more like it.

By chance, I happened to look at 37 Fides and it's on a roughly similar, if a bit 'flatter', orbit to 36 Atalante. It's close enough that jaunts between the two aren't terribly long even when the two are furthest apart, though I'd be willing to bet that'd change in a few decades... and by then it'd make a nice satellite base on the other end of the Belt.
.... That is, if no one's got plans for it.  (^_^;

Linkage for the curious:

36 Atalante
37 Fides

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Thanks eversomuch! (^_^)