Claudio Costa wrote:

> Bill,
> I checked the occultation of HIP 83097 by 7 Iris on May the 22nd at 22h
> 1.4m UTC following the prediction by Ian Manek of IOTA es: with
> surprise I found that Guide 8 (25 Feb version) places Iris 3.3 minutes
> of arc off the target star. I downloaded the most recent version of
> MPCORB from the Minor Planet Center web site. Same result.
> Any idea?

Using the elements from Steve Preston's web page and with the Tycho stars turned
on I got a track for May 22 at 22:04 UT that is 855 km wide and begins over the
UK,runs across France, Italy, Israel, Persian Gulf, and up across China.

I have found these elements dead on in a couple of occultation of other Asteroids.

Larry Wood