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References assessment

• Reference name: name of the reference (e.g. article, book, database, website)
• Availability: link for reference use. If there is an item, put the link to the item; if it is a website, put the URL,...
• Property: Property
• Assessment: Assessment of reference according to Wikidata description: preferred, normal, deprecated (see here for details).
• Rank: Internal ranking of the task force between similar references having the same assessment in order to promote the best references to use.

Propositions

List books, scientific journal, technical reports of organizations which are static in time. This will reduce the maintenance work due to change in the access of the data.

• Astronomy and Astrophysics (Q752075)
• The Astrophysical Journal (Q598789)
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Q1536490)
• The Astronomical Journal (Q669166)
• Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, a reference source for the "named after (P138)" property
• ...

List of online archives of astronomic data

• SIMBAD (Q654724) - all objects - official site
• VizieR (Q1662358) - all objects - official site
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (Q488563) - extragalactic objects - official site
• Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database (Q6709611) - galaxies - official site
• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia (Q1385430) - extrasolar planets - official site
• Minor Planet Center (Q522039) - minor planet center - official site
  • MPC (orbital elements and ephemerides of comets)
  • MPC (orbital elements and ephemerides of moons)
  • MPC (orbital elements and other things of asteroids) [Be aware: it's huge! Don't click if you miss enough bandwidth]