Thanks Bill and John!



The fix that worked: Download the MPCORD.zip file. Unzip. Find the
MPCORB.DAT file and move it to the Guide directory. Asteroids appear!



Ed



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From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Bill J Gray
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:17 AM
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Asteroid Problems



Hi Ed,

As has been mentioned, this problem does crop up from time to time.
It is addressed here:

http://www.projectp
<http://www.projectpluto.com/faq_curr.htm#missing_asteroids>
luto.com/faq_curr.htm#missing_asteroids

_Usually_, the fix described therein fixes the problem: it boils
down to asteroid elements not being available to the program, and once
you make them available (from the second Guide CD-ROM), asteroids reappear.

However, some folks have been reporting that this doesn't do the
job. I still have no idea why. I expect I'll be adding some "test"
code to investigate the problem: something that will build up a report
file logging what Guide is doing when drawing asteroids, that will
allow me to see where the problem comes into play.

-- Bill





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