Re: Find_Orb, astcheck updated

andrew_j_walker Jan 18, 2011

--- In find_orb@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > Hi Bill, thanks for the update! I've just tried to load the
> > rwo file for asteroid 90482 into the latest devel version
> > and I get the error
> > "No observations loaded from that file!"
> > Does anyone else get this? The rwo file loads ok in
> > wordpad so it doesn't look to be corrupt.
>
> Hmmm... I've downloaded '90482.rwo', and run it through without
> trouble. A couple of things to try:
>
> When you click on About, the version date should be 2010 Dec 17.
>
> If the version date matches, would you mind e-mailing me the
> input file you used? I got the data from
>
> http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/~astdys/mpcobs/numbered/90/90482.rwo
>
> I'm wondering if there may be a slightly different source of
> .rwo data elsewhere in the AstDyS/NEODyS services. Best idea I've
> come up with thus far, at any rate.
>
> -- Bill
>
For anyone interested I have just emailed Bill, the copy of the
rwo file I downloaded a few days back was slightly bigger, it had
at least one extra column "Ast Cat" before the observatory code
which is now absent.

Andrew