Hi BMD,
Those predictions are sure different. Your MPC elements are for the 'Standard' epoch date of 2022 Aug 9 00:00 UT rather than their epoch at Today's date. I don't know what's invovlved in precessing elements for a Keplerian orbit to a different epoch, as I've said. Precessing star coordinates to a different epoch is straightforward.
I scheduled some observing time on an iTelescope for tomorrow night. We'll see if there's anything where the MPC predicts 2018 FE4 should be.
Phil S.
Those predictions are sure different. Your MPC elements are for the 'Standard' epoch date of 2022 Aug 9 00:00 UT rather than their epoch at Today's date. I don't know what's invovlved in precessing elements for a Keplerian orbit to a different epoch, as I've said. Precessing star coordinates to a different epoch is straightforward.
I scheduled some observing time on an iTelescope for tomorrow night. We'll see if there's anything where the MPC predicts 2018 FE4 should be.
Phil S.