2024-04-04, 06:49 PM
Hi Greg,
In Carlo's first post on this thread, he posted a video where he showed that his search for (2) Pallas returned the MP 2019 KN19 instead. Someting was wrong with the indexing of the MP names as you indicated in an earlier post here. I had that happen to me, as you know. It's a very rare problem, Carlo being only the second one to experience it.
Carlo's MP database now contains 46 objects, which is the same number of MPs as in the Current Bright & Interesting MPs for April 2024 that Carlo downloaded. I suspect that that's where those MPs came from. The April 2024 Current MPs file doesn't include (376) Geometria, so it's no surprise that it's missing from his database. Is that correct?
Since Carlo's basically cleaned his MP database, would he now be able to download the full MPCORB file with these boxes checked:
He'll then have orbital elements for ~1.3E^6 MPs. The MPC is using the epoch 2024 Mar 31 0000 UT the last time I checked, so they're very current.
Hope this helps,
Phil S.
In Carlo's first post on this thread, he posted a video where he showed that his search for (2) Pallas returned the MP 2019 KN19 instead. Someting was wrong with the indexing of the MP names as you indicated in an earlier post here. I had that happen to me, as you know. It's a very rare problem, Carlo being only the second one to experience it.
Carlo's MP database now contains 46 objects, which is the same number of MPs as in the Current Bright & Interesting MPs for April 2024 that Carlo downloaded. I suspect that that's where those MPs came from. The April 2024 Current MPs file doesn't include (376) Geometria, so it's no surprise that it's missing from his database. Is that correct?
Since Carlo's basically cleaned his MP database, would he now be able to download the full MPCORB file with these boxes checked:
He'll then have orbital elements for ~1.3E^6 MPs. The MPC is using the epoch 2024 Mar 31 0000 UT the last time I checked, so they're very current.
Hope this helps,
Phil S.