>From what I've heard on MPML (Minor Planet Mailing List), Lowell is still a
major player in the asteroid hunting game, and astorb is still being updated
regularly.
The number of numbered asteroids (those whose positions have been measured
often enough over a long enough period of time so that they are in no danger of
being "lost") recently passed 100,000. Much previous software assumed that
only 5 digits were needed, so the asteroid community has been going through a
y2k type issue. So there may be some temporary glitches.
-John
--- Geoff Dudley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi group,
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> I have a problem with astorb.dat. I downloaded the catalog just now (
> I love cable internet!!) using the "Online resources" function of CDC.
> According to the help notes I don't have to do anything to the file as
> the "Online resources" changes the unix format to DOS automatically.
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> The file is about 80Mb and is residing in the correct directory,
> cat/planet/ASTORB.DAT
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> The problem is that when I use "Asteroid position" it's giving the
> error: "Warning! Orbital elements are one year older than the actual
> date. Do you want to continue?" I'm using today's date, Nov 13 2005.
>
> So what I'm asking is, doesn't Lowell observatory update the elements
> any more? Should I be using a different resource?
>
> --Geoff
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