Clay,

I have a different program than you do. I have been chasing asteroids
that have not been observed in years (often not since discovery), and
some are in danger of being lost. I found some of these as much as a
half degree from their MPC predicted positions; Bill's FIND_ORB has
been very helpful with my work.

These minor planets are not on MPC's lists or at least any MPC list I
have found. This is not glamorous work, but somebody needs to help
tie up lose ends. In a way this is a continuation of a project the
late Ron Stone conducted at the Naval Observatory with brighter minor
planets.

Regards,
Joe

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@...> wrote:
>
> Do you have "Use MPCORB" checked under the EXTRAs tab on Guide8?
> If the asteroids do not come up, they are not currently considered
on any critical or unusual
> listing. You can possibly enter those asteroids' parameters from the
MPC Ephemeris generator
> individually and they will then show along with those defaulted
through the mpcorb.dat file.
>
> Clay
> ----------------------------------------
> Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
> Arkansas Sky Observatories
> http://www.arksky.org/
> Observatory Hill Drive, Petit Jean Mt.
> MPC/cbat Obs. H41 / Petit Jean Mountain
> MPC/cbat Obs. H45 / Petit Jean Mountain South
> MPC/cbat Obs. H43 / Conway
> MPC/cbat Obs. H44 / Cascade Mountain
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jrhobart" <jrhobart@...>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:54 PM
> Subject: [guide-user] Re: MPCORB File Location
>
>
> >
> > Of the eight minor planets in my list that I tried, not one was in
> > NEAtod.dat file.
> >
> > So, how do I tell Guide to look in another directory for MPCORB.DAT?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
> >
> >
> > --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@> wrote:
> > >
> > > For the challenging and "observations needed" asteroids, or at least
> > the majority of
> > > them, do not use the entire MPCORB file; simply copy the daily
> > "neatod.dat" file and
> > > RENAME it after copying to "mpcorb.dat".....we do this daily and
> > have nearly all NEOs
> > > and asteroids of concern in that list.
> > >
> > > Dr. Clay
> > > -------------
> > > Arkansas Sky Observatories
> > > Harvard MPC/ H43 (Conway)
> > > Harvard MPC/ H41 (Petit Jean Mountain)
> > > Harvard MPC/ H45 (Petit Jean Mtn. South)
> > > http://www.arksky.org/
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "jrhobart" <jrhobart@>
> > > To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:37 PM
> > > Subject: [guide-user] MPCORB File Location
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Is there some way to tell Guide to look in another directory for
> > > > MPCORB.DAT?
> > > >
> > > > It seems wasteful to have to copy the 70 MB MPCORB file to the
> > > > directory of every program that uses this file.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Joe Hobart
> > > > Flagstaff, Arizona
> > > >
> > > >
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