2024-04-01, 05:53 PM
Hi Carlo,
I've had the situation where I've searched for a particular MP and the search has returned the wrong one as in your video. This is not a good position to be in. When that happened to me I had to delete all of the Observing Lists that referred to minor planets, delete all of the MPs and repopulate the database. Hopefully you won't have to go through that exercise. Not fun. Greg will help you out there.
I also noticed that the epoch of osculation that you showed in your attachment was 2024 Apr 1 13h54m40s. That's a rather odd time for the epoch of osculation when elements are downloaded from the MPC. For example, my most recent download of MPCORB of the MPC's minor planet elements from several weeks ago has an epoch of osculation for the main belt objects of 2024 Mar 31 0h0m0s, as shown here:
Actually, that was the epoch for all of the MPs in the MPCORB datafile. Maybe you use a different source for your elements. I also noticed that (2) Pallas is in the March list of Current Bright & Interesting MPs.
I hope this helps you solve your problem.
Phil S.
I've had the situation where I've searched for a particular MP and the search has returned the wrong one as in your video. This is not a good position to be in. When that happened to me I had to delete all of the Observing Lists that referred to minor planets, delete all of the MPs and repopulate the database. Hopefully you won't have to go through that exercise. Not fun. Greg will help you out there.
I also noticed that the epoch of osculation that you showed in your attachment was 2024 Apr 1 13h54m40s. That's a rather odd time for the epoch of osculation when elements are downloaded from the MPC. For example, my most recent download of MPCORB of the MPC's minor planet elements from several weeks ago has an epoch of osculation for the main belt objects of 2024 Mar 31 0h0m0s, as shown here:
Actually, that was the epoch for all of the MPs in the MPCORB datafile. Maybe you use a different source for your elements. I also noticed that (2) Pallas is in the March list of Current Bright & Interesting MPs.
I hope this helps you solve your problem.
Phil S.