Re: P/73 fragments

Scott Kranz Apr 24, 2006

hmmmmm when I enter the fragments into the generator at the Minor
Planet Center and have it return elements in GUIDE format, it
inserts 0.0 into columns 141 and 147. What are these 2 data columns?

-scott


--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Kranz" <s.kranz1@...>
wrote:
>
> THANK YOU!!!!! That is exactly what I was looking for!
>
> Where do you find these?
>
> I can find up-to-date orbital elements, but is the format layout
of
> the GUIDE comet files? If I knew that, I could create my own.
>
> I can pretty much figure out what all the data columns are except
> what is the value in:
>
> column 63 (always 0.0)?
> column 133 (always 2000.0)?
> column 141?
> column 147?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -Scott
>