SIMBAD (the Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) is an astronomical database of objects beyond the Solar system. Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον "star" and nomos (νόμος "law" is the scientific study The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by Gravity. It is maintained by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France. The Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg ( CDS; English translation Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center) is a data hub which collects and distributes This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
SIMBAD was created by merging the Catalog of Stellar Identifications (CSI) and the Bibliographic Star Index as they existed at the Meudon Computer Centre until 1979, and then expanded by additional source data from other catalogues and the academic literature. Meudon is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. The first on-line interactive version, known as Version 2, was made available in 1981. Version 3, developed in the C language and running on UNIX stations at the Strasbourg Observatory, was released in 1990. Fall of 2006 saw the release of Version 4 of the database, now stored in PostgresQL, and the supporting software, now written entirely in Java.
As of 14 June 2007, SIMBAD contains information for 3,824,195 objects under 11,200,785 different names, with 209,451 bibliographical references and 5,455,841 bibliographic citations. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
An asteroid, 4692 SIMBAD (1983 VM7) is named in its honour. Asteroids, sometimes called Minor planets or planetoids', are bodies—primarily of the inner Solar System —that are smaller than planets but 4692 SIMBAD (1983 VM7 is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on November 04, 1983 by B
See also
- NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) - a database of information on solar system objects, maintained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. The Planetary Data System (PDS is a distributed data system that NASA uses to archive data collected by Solar System robotic missions and ground-based support data The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) - a database of information on objects outside the Milky Way, also maintained by JPL. The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED is an on-line astronomical Database for professional research astronomers that collates and cross-correlates astronomical
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