Problem with the Daily NEA Download fixed

[theskyhound]

Hello,

Phil has found a bug in the minor planet code with regard to the download of the MPC Daily NEA orbital elements. The problem was that a feature I had implemented last year was accidentally disabled in testing. Nobody noticed until the MPC updated to the new standard epoch for next February. When that happened, if (and only if) you had NEA elements downloaded from one of the standard downloads, a set of elements with an epoch in the future was created, and the MPC Daily NEA orbital elements would fail to overwrite it. As a result, the orbital elements for the day were not added to the database.

I have released an update to version 4.0j R21 that fixes this issue. The MPC NEA Daily orbital elements will now overwrite the elements from the fture epoch. I apologize for any trouble this may have caused.

Please note that I don't always have time to follow the posts on this subforum. I only stop in from time to time to see what's going on with a particularly interesting flyby. So if you run into similar problems in the future, please bring them to my attention. If there is something that does not work as well as you think it should work, it is best to describe the problem (rather than propose a solution) with screenshots as appropriate. I will look into it a devise a fix or a solution. Please don't assume I know about the problem or that it can't be fixed!

[bigmasterdrago]

Thanks for the fix. As I rarely use the daily, I've not seen the issue. I get the close passes from another source and only run the ones of interest using the osculating elements from Horizons pasted into ST for the particular time/date. That feature is indeed the "BOMB".