Chris Rowland wrote: > David Nicholls wrote: >> >>The astorb.dat I just downloaded from lowell.edu has five spaces ahead >>of the asteroid numer (eg: >>.....1 Ceres etc where '.' is a space. >> >>Is your file different? > > > No, exactly the same, that's 6 characters for the number, CDC expects 5. >
So that means CDC will only accept the first 99999 asteroids in astorb.dat, because all higer numbers use 6 digits? In practice one would probably only ever want to identify the named asteroids, and these number around 25000. This reduces the dat file to around 6MB, compared to the full file at 80+MB. DN -- ____________________________________ David Nicholls Nicholls Communications http://www.dcnicholls.com/ ____________________________________ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/1.XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
