Minor Planet Center integrations

Connect Minor Planet Center to any other app, or use it from your AI client over MCP. Asterank's Minor Planet Center endpoint serves orbital and physical data on asteroids and minor planets. Callers can query the minor planet database by name or designation, filter on orbital elements such as semi-major axis, eccentricity and inclination, and retrieve records including absolute magnitude, estimated composition, and Asterank's computed value and accessibility scores. Useful for astronomy tooling and near-earth object lookups. No credentials required.

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11 actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

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What do you want to automate with Minor Planet Center?

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Connect your AI client

Give your AI client this address.

https://mcp.apiant.ai

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

Set it up in your client

Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

Claude Code guide

Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

Setup guide

Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

Setup guide

Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

Setup guide

Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

Setup guide

Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

Setup guide

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What your agent can do with Minor Planet Center

Triggers and actions 11 actions

Action
Find MPECs
Search Minor Planet Electronic Circulars by object or search terms, optionally filtered by issue date range.
Action
Find near-duplicate observations
Search the MPC's published observation database for near-duplicates of a given observation by time and angular proximity.
Action
Get action code
Resend an observation submission's action code (used to retract observations or label objects) to the email address on file.
Action
Get magnitude band
Retrieve reference information for a magnitude band used in MPC observations, or all bands.
Action
Get NEOCP observations
Retrieve observation data for an object currently on the Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page by tracklet identifier.
Action
Get object identifier
Look up the designations and identification details for a minor planet or comet given a name, provisional or permanent designation.
Action
Get observations
Retrieve recorded astrometric observation data for a solar system object by designation.
Action
Get observation status
Check the processing status of individual submitted observations by tracklet/station, observation ID, obs80 string, or submission block ID.
Action
Get observatory codes
Retrieve details for one or all observatories registered with the MPC by observatory code.
Action
Get orbital elements
Retrieve orbital elements and related parameters for a solar system object by designation.
Action
List objects
List solar system objects belonging to a named group such as NEOs, comets, or TNOs, ordered by designation.

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Minor Planet Center, answered

Is there a Minor Planet Center MCP server?

APIANT's MCP server at https://mcp.apiant.ai works with Minor Planet Center. Add that address to any AI client that takes a remote MCP server and sign in once in your browser. Your client can then run Minor Planet Center actions on demand, or have APIANT build, test and run automations that use Minor Planet Center. Nothing to install.

What can your agent do in Minor Planet Center?

Any of Minor Planet Center's 11 actions, including Find MPECs, Find near-duplicate observations, Get action code and Get magnitude band. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Can I use Minor Planet Center directly from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect your AI client to APIANT once and it works with Minor Planet Center two ways. Ask it to do something in Minor Planet Center once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running on its own. A one-off action uses your plan's tasks the same way an automation step does.

Do I need to write code against the Minor Planet Center API?

No. APIANT connects to the Minor Planet Center API for you. Describe what you want in plain language and your agent builds it on the Minor Planet Center triggers and actions in the catalog. If you need an endpoint that is not there yet, your agent reads the Minor Planet Center API documentation and adds it.

Which apps can Minor Planet Center connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs Minor Planet Center with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.