The astorb database at Lowell Observatory is an actively curated catalog of all known asteroids in the Solar System. astorb has heritage dating back to the 1970's and has been publicly accessible since the 1990's. Beginning in 2015 work began to modernize the underlying database infrastructure, operational software, and associated web applications. That effort has involved the expansion of astorb to incorporate new data such as physical properties (e.g. albedo, colors, spectral types) from a variety of sources. The data in astorb are used to support a number of research tools hosted at https://asteroid.lowell.edu. Here we present a full description of the software tools, computational foundation, and data products upon which the astorb ecosystem has been built.
@article{arxiv.2210.10217,
title = {The astorb database at Lowell Observatory},
author = {Nicholas A. Moskovitz and Lawrence Wasserman and Brian Burt and Robert Schottland and Edward Bowell and Mark Bailen and Mikael Granvik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10217},
year = {2022}
}