2022-09-24, 06:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 2022-09-24, 06:56 PM by bigmasterdrago.)
Sorry Phil. What I meant was I processed the complete 29K+ NEOs from the MPC epoch of 2459800.5JD (Aug 9, 2022) to 2459846.90428378JD (2022 Sept 24 09:42:10UT) using just my PC to see how long it would take. I did it externally, outside of SkyTools. As an experiment. ~35 seconds. When I fetch the NEA at today's epoch using ST, it took ~5m30s yesterday to do all the processing which I assume is internal to ST using Greg's algorithm.
I did watch the dialog but do not recall the numbers. I ran it for now (Sept 24, 2022) and it took only 2m12s - downloading, reading data, updating data, 2,386,789 MP, writing epoch files, rebuild cross index, updated 29,491, added 5, skip 2. It shows today's date (Sept 24) for all the NEAs.
Phil, try plotting the Lowell elements and the MPC elements for 2018 FE4. When I do that, the two rocks are showing 91° apart in the sky. MPC rock 0.0069AU and Lowell rock 0.045AU - Sept 25 19:17CDT.
I did watch the dialog but do not recall the numbers. I ran it for now (Sept 24, 2022) and it took only 2m12s - downloading, reading data, updating data, 2,386,789 MP, writing epoch files, rebuild cross index, updated 29,491, added 5, skip 2. It shows today's date (Sept 24) for all the NEAs.
Phil, try plotting the Lowell elements and the MPC elements for 2018 FE4. When I do that, the two rocks are showing 91° apart in the sky. MPC rock 0.0069AU and Lowell rock 0.045AU - Sept 25 19:17CDT.