At 22:42 2003-10-19 -0400, you wrote:

>Bill Gray and other cognoscenti,
> I am having trouble trying to enter modified elements of an asteroid,
>in particular 1937 UB, which is now identified with long-lost Hermes.

Hi Truman.

You want to play around with "H" until it fits your observations. I just
took several images for astrometry and the Magnitude came out 14.0 using
the UCAC2 star catalog.

Try loading the following elements into the add comet/asteroids routine and
see if that works. Be sure to include the "Orbital elements" line as Guide
is looking for it to identify that the data following is in the correct
format.

Orbital elements:
1937 UB PHA 0.003
Epoch 2003 Dec. 27.0 TT = JDT 2453000.5 MPC
M 1.79614 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.46288738 Peri. 92.39541 -0.59740895 -0.79969615
a 1.6550806 Node 34.51615 +0.68733602 -0.54908819
e 0.6242226 Incl. 6.06865 +0.41312437 -0.24287492
P 2.13 H 17.1 G 0.15 U 6



Hope this helps.

Bob Elliott
Fall Creek, WI
MPC 750