asteroids disappear

vswmart Feb 24, 2005

Hello all,

Do the standard orbital elements for bright asteroids have a limited
validity period? When i animate an asteroid beyond June 2005 it
suddenly disappears and cant be displayed anymore. Error messages is
like "Not a known object" when manually selecting, even for objects
like pallas.

This only happens on my unkempt desktop installation (May 2004
Version), not on my observing laptop, where i most-likely did some
updates to the asteroid data.

Just a case of rtfm?

Regards, Martin