2022-09-26, 06:11 PM
(2022-09-26, 12:05 AM)bigmasterdrago Wrote: Hope the weather Gods are nice. Here is the poop on that rock using elements at today's epoch.
9-24-22
At least those positions are only 12.4' apart now. But... the JPL are only 3' away from the Lowell positions. Who ya going to believe?
But the Lowell elements that you used are for the epoch 2022 Aug 9 00:00 UT & your new MPC elements at Today's Epoch are for 2022 Sep 25 00:00 UT. That's ~7 weeks different. Still, you have 2 pairs of positions ~90° apart from each other. The MPC's elements don't usually change that much unless there's been a close approach to perturb the orbit, correct?
Maybe the iTelescope will catch 2018 FE4 tonight. The weather was bad in New Mexico last night.
Phil S.