P. Clay Sherrod Nov 11, 2015
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From: "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] How to see the object WT1190F guide 9?
> Hi Clay,
>
> I wish browsers were a little smarter about such things! (Of late,
> I've taken to having all text files have extension .txt. But 'probes.dat'
> existed before I started running into the problem.)
>
> Try downloading this (same file, except with the name .txt instead of .dat) :
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/probes.txt
>
> Then save it to your Guide folder, changing the '.txt' to '.dat' when
> you do so. Should get you around the problem.
>
> -- Bill
>
> On 11/11/2015 02:32 PM, 'P. Clay Sherrod' drclay@... [guide-user] wrote:
>> Hi Bill....this file is attempting to save only as a webpage and not a .dat file.
>> How can it be converted to a true .dat file or .txt file and be saved to work in
>> Guide?
>>
>>
>> Clay
>> _____
>> Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
>> Arkansas Sky Observatories
>> MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
>> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
>> MPC H43 - Conway West
>> http://www.arksky.org/
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 1:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [guide-user] How to see the object WT1190F guide 9?
>>
>>
>>> On 11/11/2015 06:59 AM, pastorgalactico@... [guide-user] wrote:
>>>> I wonder how to get the ephemeris of this object; WT1190F
>>>>
>>>> How would come represented in guide 9?
>>>>
>>>> Asteroid or satellite. ?
>>>
>>> (For those wondering what WT1190F is: briefly, it's a bit of
>>> unidentified space junk that will re-enter just south of Sri Lanka
>>> on Friday. I've been involved a fair bit with figuring out where
>>> and when it will hit, and what it is. More details at :
>>>
>>> http://www.projectpluto.com/temp/wt1190f.htm
>>>
>>> I was about to provide a long explanation of why you can't do this.
>>> Then I figured out a way to do it.
>>>
>>> Download this file into your Guide folder :
>>>
>>> http://www.projectpluto.com/probes.dat
>>>
>>> This will provide WT1190F, displayed as a satellite, for times
>>> from November 1 until impact. The accuracy will be within a few
>>> arcminutes for now until impact. (The error is because Guide is
>>> assuming a simple elliptical motion around the earth. It gets a
>>> little more accuracy by using three sets of elements; it picks the
>>> "best" elements for the currently specified time.)
>>>
>>> -- Bill
>>>
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