alfredo caronia Jan 28, 2015
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>
> Hi Alfredo,
>
> If you put 'mpcorb.dat' in your Guide folder (not a subfolder), that
> should do the trick, and asteroids will be brought up to date.
>
> Now, as to those two "outdated links"... they are to
>
> http://www.imcce.fr/fr/ephemerides/donnees/comets/ASCII/ELTDAT.TXT
> http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft02Cmt.txt
>
> The former gives elements for comets from about 1995 to the present,
> but it isn't updated all that regularly. The latter is right up to the
> minute, but doesn't include anything except currently visible objects.
> Put them together, though, and they cover all comets found since 1995,
> with a little overlap. (And Guide has a list on the DVD covering everything
> before then, in case somebody wonders where the Great Comet of 1811 was.)
>
> However, both links appear to be quite current, so I think the
> trouble you're seeing must be something else. (And the text you quote
> comes from the current version of Guide, so that's not the problem either.)
> Exactly what error message(s) are you getting when you "click to download
> updated comet data and add it to Guide"?
>
> -- Bill
>
> On 01/27/2015 01:37 PM, alfredo caronia alfredoc49@... [guide-user]
> wrote:
> > Hello Bill! In relation to this step of your email 27/01/2015:
> >
> > "
> >
> >
> > *Anyway. The new scheme is a heck of a lot simpler, and the bugs appear
> to
> > have all vanished. It does require, however, that you download
> 'mpcorb.dat'
> > so that _all_ asteroids are replaced with one consistent dataset of
> orbital
> > elements.* "
> >
> >
> > I wanted to say that the option "Add MPC Comets / Asteroids" in "Extras"
> > menu does not work because refers to two outdated links!
> >
> > In fact, it reads: "T*he Minor*
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > * Planet Center (MPC) and the IMCCE Shops provide orbital elements for
> > comets. Guide updates ITS list of comets using Both sources; MPC Gives
> > currently-observable comets, all IMCCE comets since about 1995. (Data for
> > historical comets is Already built Into the DVD Guide.) You can click on
> to
> > download the Following some of These files, getting orbital date for
> > newly-found objects and Already known for improving on orbits objects.
> > About 600 KBytes will be downloaded.* "
>
> >
> > But the MPC link and Ithe MCCE link included in the note above are no
> longer
> > active!
> >
> >
> > I therefore assume that the automatic update of the data of asteroids
> does
> > not work anymore! (Maybe I'm wrong? Possibly correct me!)
> >
> > So, being so, I ask for confirmation if the suggested alternative (
> viable for
> > the future ) is the manual download of mpcorb.dat and, in this case, i
> > wonder in which folder, I should put the file of mpcorb.dat!
> > Should I create a new folder in C: / Guide for instance?
> > Thanks for tips and clarifications!
> >
> > Best Regards!
> >
> > Alfredo Caronia
> >
> > 2015-01-27 3:05 GMT+00:00 Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]
> <
> > guide-user@yahoogroups.com>:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Roger,
> >>
> >> Updating via the critical list, or any "sublist", is very likely to
> >> lead to trouble. In fact, it's not even an option with the currently
> >> posted software at
> >>
> >> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
> >>
> >> I'd advise downloading that, and then getting the current 'mpcorb.dat'
> >> from the MPC site.
> >>
> >> I know I described the issue somewhere, but can't find it now, so here
> >> goes: For many years, Guide tried to handle asteroid and comet updates
> by
> >> downloading the smaller files MPC provides, and attempting to figure out
> >> which objects were updates and which were new objects, and trying to
> >> account
> >> for the fact that sometimes you got the same objects with new
> designations.
> >> To say that the resulting code was bizarre would be an understatement.
> That
> >> led to bugs. There may have been more inquiries about problems with
> adding
> >> comets and asteroids than any other part of Guide.
> >>
> >> Anyway. The new scheme is a heck of a lot simpler, and the bugs appear
> >> to have all vanished. It does require, however, that you download
> >> 'mpcorb.dat' so that _all_ asteroids are replaced with one consistent
> >> dataset of orbital elements.
> >>
> >> -- Bill
> >>
> >> On 01/26/2015 07:32 PM, roger.curry@... [guide-user] wrote:
> >>> I updated my asteroid list with the critical list today but can not
> find
> >> the asteroid using 2004 BL86. I also went to the area it is supposed to
> be
> >> in and it did not show up under that designation, How do I find it in
> Guide?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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