On 30/11/2011 4:08 PM, Bill J Gray wrote:

> Hi Rolf,
>
> Hmmm... there are occasional wild variations in the absolute magnitudes
> given in the MPECs for comets. Comets are notorious for deciding to drop
> or rise in brightness, and I've sometimes seen the absolute magnitude
> rise and drop by a lot.

I have the same problem.

I just tried to access the MPC site directly and the message is:

"We're sorry , but something went wrong.
We,ve been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly"
End quote

I think the site has been down for some days which is causing the problem ????

By the way I just looked at Palomar 15 and see that its location is still in error.
So I guess no data change.


Larry Wood