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Originally Posted by davewaldo
IT WORKED!!!! The LITTLE RIPPER!
Thank you Andrew SO MUCH for your help. I can usually sort these sorts of computer things out myself but this one had me stumped!
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A pleasure - especially since it worked.
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Originally Posted by davewaldo
I simply deleted all of SN's entries and pasted the entire astorb contents.
I then told SN to load the first 10,000. It took perhaps 30sec longer to load but now it shows the asteroid I've been searching for!
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My copy has 527,415 rows. Good thing you only picked the first 10,000.
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Originally Posted by davewaldo
You'd think SN would offer support pages to mention how to do this. Its not hard now you've shown me what to do.
As for updating... do asteroid orbits need to be updated regularly? Or would this just be to add newly discovered objects?
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There will be newbies, and with ongoing observations there are always refinements to the orbital elements.