SIMBAD
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SIMBAD (the Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) is an astronomical database of objects beyond the Solar system. It is maintained by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France.
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. The first on-line interactive version was made available in 1981.
As of 15 September 2005, SIMBAD contains information for 3,753,570 objects under 9,829,671 different names, with 169,263 bibliographical references and 5,196,259 bibliographic citations.
An asteroid, 4692 SIMBAD (1983 VM7) is named in its honour.
[edit] See also
- NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) - a database of information on solar system objects, also maintained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) - a database of information on objects outside the Milky Way maintained by JPL
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