NASA Planetary Data System's Small Bodies Node Distribution of the Minor Planet Center Database and the SBN/MPC Annex

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) based at Harvard University's Center for Astrophysics is the IAU-sanctioned clearing house of small-body positional data and is responsible for classification of these asteroids and cometary objects by type. Currently, the observed data, orbital elements, and MPC-generated products have been made publically available through a variety of web-posted files and tools and through a live exported database that is populated as part of each submission's end-processing. In order to speed processing to increase capacity for future planned surveys, the MPC is switching to a relational database processing system, and will export their live database for public consumption.
The MPC's overseeing organization, the NASA Planetary Data System's Small Bodies Node, using its hardware resources in support of the MPC, will be responsible for the distribution of the live copies of the MPC-generated database to interested users. SBN already exports a Beta-release version, and provides products to report the status, health, and growth of the database to its user base through the SBN's MPC Annex website. We will provide a description of the available MPC database Beta-release, as well as the plans for the imminent future developments, and the current and future features within the SBN's MPC Annex.