Tesla Roadster new orbital elements

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Has a TLE been posted somewhere for the Tesla Roadster in its new orbit out past Mars? I was hoping to paste it into SN7. Thanks

SN7 is in the UK, i will be hard to paste orbital elements there. Or is SN7 something different? If so, can you add a link? Thanks! — uhoh, Feb 12 '18 at 05:07
Possible duplicate of Has a TLE ever been issued for a spacecraft trajectory not bound to Earth orbit? — uhoh, Feb 12 '18 at 07:49
The only ambiguity in closing this question is to decide if No, TLEs not issued for spacecraft not bound to Earth or perhaps Horizons can be used to find Roadster's orbital elements, or some other answer. — uhoh, Feb 12 '18 at 07:56
Welcome to Stack Exchange! It's a good question, but it would be better to look at all of the other answers here first. Currently we have 49 questions with the Roadster tag already! — uhoh, Feb 12 '18 at 08:00
Pardon the novice question, but what do the acronyms TLE and SN7 mean? — Dan Sorensen, Feb 12 '18 at 08:07
@DanSorensen if you click on my link that includes "TLE" in the title and then follow the question-trail back, you'll find out what a TLE is, or check this site's tag for two-line-elements, but Wikipedia explains Two Line Element nicely. However for SN7 I've already posted a comment suggesting that it be explained further. — uhoh, Feb 12 '18 at 08:18
Does SN7 relate to the .sn7 disk snapshot file format? https://datatypes.net/open-sn7-files — Dan Sorensen, Feb 12 '18 at 17:32
Sorry SN7 as I used it is for the program Starry Night Pro version 7. I was hoping to use it to plot the orbit of the Tesla Roadster. — John, Feb 20 '18 at 21:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 12 '18 at 08:25

They're available on JPL Horizons. Here is a simulation of the Tesla's orbit I made using Horizons data, described further here:

http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulatorCloud/simulations/1518192530417_teslaRoadsterFeb9Horizons.html

If you want the orbital elements or state vectors at any point in time, make sure the simulation is paused, then menu Objects > Edit Orbital Elements or Edit State Vectors will show them to you.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '18 at 01:14

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TLEs are only for Earth orbiting objects. The best source of raw data is JPL Horizons. I don't know how you might put that in to SN7, but...

answered Feb 12 '18 at 01:14

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-1 It might be better to point to where these have been already answered in much greater detail than to post a terse re-answer. The site is better when we work hard to point to the best answers. I know you've been extremely busy with this site for the last week, maybe better to let someone else with more time answer than to answer quickly? I've added a close vote and comment above. – uhoh Feb 12 '18 at 07:58

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