Re: NEO asteroids

Lawrence Harris Nov 14, 2007

Can I check that I understand this correctly? I delete the original MPCorb.dat.
I replace it with the latest neatod.dat. I also make a second copy of
neatod.dat and rename it mpcorb.dat and place it in the same folder. I did that
and I am curious to see all of the asteroids listed in the 'table', even showing
Pluto and names that I would not have associated as being NEOs. Maybe I have a
steep learning curve here - but can you just confirm that I did the right thing?
If so, this would seem to be an elegant method :-)

TIA

Lawrence


>Re: NEO asteroids
> Posted by: "P. Clay Sherrod" drclay@... drclay2002
> Date: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:50 pm ((PST))
>
>Hello Lawrence....
>If you load ONLY the "neatod.dat" files and add that file under two different names to
>the Guide folder (neatod.dat and mpcorb.dat).....same file exactly, just fool Guide and
>change the name of the original neatod.dat file from the MPCORB daily database:
>
>Then go to "Extras" and make sure to toggle "USE MPCORB" on....it will show those
>asteroids on the list. We update daily here at ASO and incorporate those two identical
>files for both Guide8 star fields and Charon measurements.
>
>Clay
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>Dr. P. Clay Sherrod