Hi Rachel,

You were asking about the big solarsystem.txt file (the one that
contains astroids), and I couldn't make much sense of it so I asked
Kevin Wayne, the designer of the homework:

>  Hi Randy. Unfortunately I don't know how to do the conversion or 
>  I would have done it. I was hoping for some physics hotshot to  
>  do the conversion for us and find some images for the asteroids. :) 
>  I think e = eccentricity. 
>   
>  	-Kevin  

Randy