Planning Follow-Up Asteroid Observations using the Gauss Algorithm

The Wide field Infrared Kuiper belt and Exoplanet Explorer Telescope, also known as the WIKEE telescope, is a longstanding project that the New Mexico Tech astronomy club has been developing over the past few years. One of the goals of asteroid tracking is a publicly available, easy to use program where positional information, either found online or user observations, are uploaded and trajectories are calculated. The objective of orbital mechanics is to take multiple observations of where planetary bodies are located, then either using vectors or angles, compute where they are going. All the angles and vector information are automatically uploaded into the software and computed. The next goal is taking the compiled results and making a 3D model for where all of the observed asteroids are.