asteroid 1998 WT24 shown double
Vogt Meinolf Jan 22, 2002
nearly 2 weeks ago I've posted a question concerning asteroid 1998 WT24 shown double in Guide7. Unfortunately, I did'nt get an answer. Maybe my question has been overlooked, since there were many postings concerning Guide8 at that time.
Since the problem is still there, I ask the question once again:
A few days ago I got the latest data of unusual asteroids from the MPC and loaded them into Guide. When I looked at the position of 1998 WT24 on the evening of Dec. 15, 2001 (on that evening I have observed this asteroid) to my surprise it was shown doubly a few arcminutes apart. When I made an animation, the two copies of WT24 moved a little different approaching each other. When I looked at the file comets.dat, there WT24 was only once, with the data I just had loaded from the internet. But even if I delete WT24 from comets.dat, Guide still shows it with slightly different data.
Apart from comets.dat, I found a file named now_com.dat, which also contains data of asteroids and comets. This file seems to be automatically generated by Guide. Even if I delete this one, its there again when I open Guide for the next time. Thedata of WT24 in this file are the same as those in comets.dat. Apart from this, I could find no other file containing data of asteroids (I don't use the mpcorb.dat file, it is not in my Guide-directory). So, where does this additional copy of WT24 come from and how can I get rid of it?
Any help will be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Meinolf