2021-10-14, 04:10 PM
Thanks for the clarification BMD. It can certainly be confusing keeping everything straight. Perhaps in the futire you can describe how you get elements at Today's epoch from Lowell. Can you do this for a single MP or a group of them?
An 8.5" error sounds pretty good considering the magnitude of some of the position errors that you've reported in the past. Is the good agreement because we're still some time away from the close approach?
A nice feature would be to be able to read a file with multiple elements sets at the same time & plug them all into the MP database at once. It would speed up the position calculations for close approachs.
Phil S.
An 8.5" error sounds pretty good considering the magnitude of some of the position errors that you've reported in the past. Is the good agreement because we're still some time away from the close approach?
A nice feature would be to be able to read a file with multiple elements sets at the same time & plug them all into the MP database at once. It would speed up the position calculations for close approachs.
Phil S.