Re: [guide-user] RE: How to see the object WT1190F guide 9?

P. Clay Sherrod Nov 11, 2015

Bill...how often do you update the database on the "probes" file.
This is really something handy that will assist many people in following this stuff
for you.

Clay
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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/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] RE: How to see the object WT1190F guide 9?


> Hi Grant,
>
>> Never mind – I have it. You have to use GOTO….Asteroid, then
>> enter WT1190F, for some reason.
>
> That's a bit odd. You're right, though; I'd not noticed it,
> because I'd used Go To... Object Name, and entered WT1190F. Both
> work. Go To... Satellite does not.
>
> To get it to show up, you have to go to Data Shown, and either
> turn satellites "on" or set a magnitude limit such that WT1190F shows
> up. (It's at about mag 20 right now.)
>
> Also, be warned: the elements in 'probes.dat' (or 'probes.txt')
> run from 1 November up to slightly after impact (13 November 06:19).
> They'll be quite good for observing from now until then. They are
> probably not so great for early November, other than to give a ballpark
> idea of what WT1190F was doing back then.
>
> Grant, that bit with HTML tags being added in when you saved
> 'probes.dat' is _really_ bizarre, and represents a new low for
> Internet Exploder (I'm pretty sure that was the offending browser).
> One can get around that (possibly entirely intentional) defect in
> the browser by getting this file :
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/probes.zip
>
> and extracting 'probes.dat' from it.
>
> No matter how you get it, whether by just downloading 'probes.dat'
> or by getting 'probes.txt' and renaming it, or by extracting it from
> 'probes.zip', the file 'probes.dat' should contain exactly 21058 bytes.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
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