Thanks Bill,

It works well now, with the new file. I hope to be able to see at this
asteroid this evening. By the way, I was one of the people who suggested
to have tooltips for the toolbar icons, and as usual you made a really
great job again.

Thanks a lot

Claude

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill J. Gray [mailto:pluto@...]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:03 PM
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [guide-user] 1999 KW4, part II; crashes
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Hmmmm... at least one problem is apparent: from the 'original
> message' quoted by Claude Serquet, it looks as if the orbital
> elements in my message got split up across an extra line. Those
> elements were in the MPC's "Daily Orbit Update" format, which puts
> a full set of elements into a single 80-byte line; break that line
> up, and Guide doesn't recognize that it's a valid set of elements.
>
> So let's try again. Following are elements in the more verbose,
> multiple-line format also used by MPC... but none of the lines runs
> more than 68 characters, so no splitting should occur. Same comments
> as to use: save this message as a file, then use "Extras... Add
> MPC comets/asteroids", and select that file.
>
> Orbital elements:
> 1999 KW4
> Epoch 2001 Apr. 1.0 TT = JDT 2452000.5
> M 30.58500 (2000.0) P Q
> n 1.91474563 Peri. 192.59500 -0.00000000 -0.00000000
> a 0.6422863 Node 244.94500 +0.00000000 -0.00000000
> e 0.6884100 Incl. 38.89500 +0.00000000 -0.00000000
> P 0.51 H 16.6 G 0.15
>
> Claude also mentions: "...Entering 'J99K04W' makes Guide crash..."
> It ought to simply not work; when Guide imports these elements, it
> deciphers MPC's packed designation into a user-readable one (in this
> case, 1999 KW4). I think the crash is related to the problem
> mentioned by Pierre Desjardins, of getting odd asteroid magnitudes
> when running without the CD. I have figured that one out and
> fixed it,
> and it will go away the next time I post an update.
>
> -- Bill
>
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