Re: [find_orb] Broken Link

Bill J Gray Jul 2, 2012

Hi Joe,

> When I try to get an orbit diagram for a potential new discovery
> from Ephemeris -> Pseudo-MPC, I get:
>
> The requested URL /cgi-bin/neo.pl was not found on this server.
>
> This used to work.

True. I was relying on a script on a JPL site that has been
removed, and have been looking for a way to get around that problem.
It _should_ be possible. The Java applet that shows orbits is still
available, and I've been able to write static HTML code that gets
it running with a particular set of orbital elements.

The problem has been in getting the orbit viewer to appear with
the orbital elements for the asteroid in the MPEC. Still looking into
how to do that. The problem was reported to me a while back, and
I looked into it then without success. Your e-mail prompted me to
take another crack at it. I figured out a few things, but can't
say my progress was very great... perhaps tomorrow! My guess is that
there is a very simple solution that I'm overlooking.

-- Bill