MPC Status Page: Archive (2003 May)

This page describes enhancements to or problems that have occurred with the MPC's webpages and scripts and the fixes that have been made.

Older Enhancements and Resolved Problems

Occasionally Incorrect Magnitudes in NOEG
2003 May 30: 10:40. It appears that the New Object Ephemeris Generator can occasionally return incorrect magnitudes in the ephemeris.
- The problem was tracked down to different orbits being used occasionally for calculation of the absolute magnitude and the calculation of the ephemeris. A corrected script was put on-line at 11:30.
"File locked" in MPES
2003 May 27: 11:15. This problem is now considered fixed. In reference to the May 15 remarks, the problem was not caused by the current version of the MPES code.
2003 May 20: 14:00. We have received no reports of "Locked" errors since the previous posting on this subject. If there are no reports by the coming weekend, we will move this "Outstanding Problem" to the "Resolved Problem" section.
2003 May 15: 11:20. During extensive testing on the new improved MPES code, we have yet to see a single "Locked" message. If users experience 'File locked' error messages after 15:20 UT on May 15, please send an email to gwilliams@cfa.harvard.edu.
2003 May 14: 15:40. It was hoped that the removal of the dodgy interface card would fix this problem. And indeed, it looked as though it had. Alas, the problem persists.

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