P. Clay Sherrod Nov 11, 2015
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From: "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
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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