Hi Enrico,

Thank you; I should have seen that that might happen. Guide is a
little picky about the orbital element formats it will read. They have
to look exactly like the MPC ones. The 'precision' selected in Find_Orb
has to be five digits, you can't use the alternative format, and there
are almost certainly a few other possible gotchas.

But it should be possible for Guide to at least understand anything
Find_Orb produces. I'll investigate.

-- Bill

On 07/24/2015 05:25 AM, mlist@... [guide-user] wrote:
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> The file 'elementd.txt' generated by find_orb can not be added via 'Add MPC asteroids/comets' even if 'Alternative element format' is unchecked in find_orb/Settings. The problem, I found, is an extra blank space after the sentence 'Orbital elements:' in the first line; remove the trailing space and Guide9 adds the object. If necessary, you have to edit the H absolute magnitude parameter.
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> Enrico Pettarin
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> CCAF, Strada Colombara 11, 34072 Farra d'Isonzo GO, Italy [MPC site 595]
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