Impact locations - Can't reproduce 2008TC3 example

dkoschny Feb 20, 2012

Hi all,

I am a newby to Find_Orb. I am interested in the capability to use it to create possible impact locations on the Earth, together with Guide (I have Guide 9). However, I can't even reproduce the example given on the website of projectpluto.com where it says "Go to MPCOBS, request data from 2008 TC3, copy into Find_Orb..." Actually all that works, but I get no 'IMPACT' in Find_Orb, rather a 'Perihelion 2008 Nov 20.399...'. It only uses 302 observations, for some reason all the first observations are marked with an 'X' which I assume means that they are not used.

Did anybody recently try the 2008 TC3 example at http://www.projectpluto.com/find_orb.htm#impacts?

Maybe I am doing something wrong...

Thanks for any help, Detlef.