Re: [guide-user] MPCOrb.dat interesting find

Bill J Gray Apr 29, 2007

Hi Denis,

Dunno why _that's_ happening... Guide should handle that change
without any problem! (It doesn't actually make any use of that
number; it looks at the name -- which occupies the same columns
as it did before -- and at the number given at the start of the
line, not the one given in parentheses near the end of the line.)

I tried replicating the problem, using all three possible
labelling schemes ("label by number", "label number, provisional
designation", "label name, provisional"). All three worked as
I would have expected.

Do you find that the problem occurs when using the full
'mpcorb' file? Or does it only happen with subset files?
And which labels are missing: names, numbers, or provisional
designations?

-- Bill