Where is Pallas ?

[theskyhound]

Hello Carlo,

I am concerned that Phil has given you the idea that you need to delete them, but you probably don't. Is there an actual problem? If not, then stop worrying over it. Phil was a beta tester and possibly the heaviest user of minor planet data. His database was abused and then abused again. Most people should not need to delete their minor planets.

Regarding your question: it might have been better to wait for me to help you with this, as I would have explained these things in the process. When you said you had deleted all of them, I believed you, but wondered how you did it.

From the help under Cleanup/Delete: "Note that minor planets that are being used, such as being in an observing list or a log entry ,will not be deleted." So, if you could delete them, it would wreak havoc with everything, causing trouble with everything from log entries to observing lists. Please don't try things like deleting files, at least not without making a backup first.

If there is a reason to. you can delete more of them by deleting any minor planets from observing lists. You could delete the minor planet lists in the Auto Generated Lists folder. Some MPC download generate a list of the objects as a convenience. You could also delete the objects from the current minor planets list.

But I don't see any reason for you to do these things.