2022-12-16, 05:44 PM
One of the things that I learned recently is that if you download both MPC's MPCORB & NEAs at Today's Epoch data files, be sure to uncheck the NEO box when downloading MPCORB. If you leave the NEO box CHECKED when downloading MPCORB, all of the known NEOs will have their epochs updated to the MPC's current standard epoch of 2023 Feb 25 00:00 UT. If that happens to your NEOs, then they won't be updated to Today's Epoch until after 2023 Feb 25 because SkyTools stores & uses the future date. New discoveries will be added when they're discovered & will be updated with Today's Epoch, so they'll be fine.
Greg said that he's working on a fix for this condition. MPC has changed the way they handle the standard epoch & now use future epoch dates.
If you're downloading elements from HORIZONS for individual NEOs then you probably haven't encountered this issue.
Phil S.
Greg said that he's working on a fix for this condition. MPC has changed the way they handle the standard epoch & now use future epoch dates.
If you're downloading elements from HORIZONS for individual NEOs then you probably haven't encountered this issue.
Phil S.