MPCORB.dat not being updated daily????

barringtonri Aug 10, 2010

Hi All,

This may be slightly off topic, but when downloading the MPC DAILY critical objects and then comparing them to the full MPCORB data to see if there are any "extra" asteroids to be expected within the image frame - I find that the DAILY critical list objects are sometimes missing from the full MPCORB download. This suggests that the full MPCORB.dat file is only updated periodically while the DAILY.txt file is updated daily. Am I wrong about this?

The MPC seems to be struggling as they haven't run the monthly rediduals for observatory codes since May 1st.

Pete Peterson
Wishing Star Observatory I15