Adds the following asteroids to your Orbiter install:
1 Ceres,
2 Pallas,
3 Juno,
4 Vesta,
1620 Geographos,
1998 KY26,
2063 Bacchus,
216 Kleopatra,
243 Ida and moon Dactyl,
253 Mathilde (NEAR mission target),
4179 Toutatis (close-Earth encounter Sept. 2004),
433 Eros (NEAR mission target and landing site),
4769 Castalia,
6489 Golevka,
and 951 Gaspra.
These meshes and textures are Orbiter ports of models made by Jestr for Celestia (thanks, Jestr). All configs contain accurate orbital data obtained from JPL Horizons online ephemeris system. As with most Orbiter add-ons it is advisable to read the enclosed documentation before attempting to install, especially if you are new to Orbiter, as the installation instructions contained in the documentation must be followed precisely in order for the add on to function properly. You will need to edit your Sol.cfg file to add these models to your Orbiter environment. An example layout is provided in the ReadMe. You should be able to edit the layout to conform with your Sol.cfg and then copy and paste. The scaling on these is as accurate as it can be, but most asteroids are irregular-shaped objects and until Orbiter's 3D API becomes a little more sophisticated there's just some things you're going to have a hard time doing with these (i.e. land on the surface, orbit or cruise at low altitude, etc.).