Hi Tom,

This _should_ work. It's not the way I'd usually recommend; as Grant wrote, you
should usually use the 'mpcorb.dat' file from MPC. I suspect something went wrong
with the download of that file; you'll probably find that you have an older version
of the file, or some such.

Manual entry should be reserved for situations where you have some sort of
hypothetical object in mind. Still, it ought to have worked. Would you mind
e-mailing me your 'usrcomet.txt' file? That ought to let me see what's going
on at that end, at least...

-- Bill

On 06/07/2014 11:44 AM, kunsitis@... [guide-user] wrote:
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> I tried entering the orbital elements for 2014 HQ124 using the manual dialog. Guide 9.0 took them but would not display the asteroid. I got the "Not an Asteroid" dialog box when I tried to call it up. I looked at where the data went and it is in the usrcomet.txt file. Guide recognizes it as neither an asteroid nor a comet. I am running the 17 June 2013 version of Guide 9.0 on a Windows 7 computer.
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> Normally, I extract asteroid data from the Guide files at the IAU Minor Planet Center but 2014 HQ124 has not made it into any of their Guide data sets yet.
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> Has anyone else had this problem?
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