KBOMPCK

Name

kbompck

Purpose

Pre-check and summary for MPC data submission for KBO/Centaur observations

Description

Reads all the .ast files contained in the astrometry directory and sifts
through the information therein. These are files that were generated
previously by ASTCOL. It also needs to find a file that lists
all the non-designated objects of concern (oblist.dat). These
non-designated objects are assumed to be KBO/Centaur objects.
Once all the observations are read in, EPHEM is used to get the orbital
elements of all objects. Those objects with orbital elements indicative
of KBO/Centaur objects are called out for special mention in the summary.
After the list of interesting objects is generated, the observations
of DESIGNATED KBO/Centaur objects are written to 'new_special_ted' in
the current directory. Note that the previous contents of this file
are deleted prior to saving the new file. This file has the same format
as the special_ted file used at Lowell to include observations prior to
MPC publication. Once the contents of the new file are checked and known
to be good, it is usual to APPEND these observations to the end of the
existing special_ted file. Again, remember that this file is not relevant
for non-designated objects.
Finally, please note that this program really doesn't do much other than
summarize the observations. It is not perfect and often this information
needs to be edited and/or reformatted before it's useful to forward to
the Minor Planet Center along with the submitted data.

Calling Sequence

kbompck

Inputs

None

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

ASTDIR - Directory where pending astrometry is located, default is
/net/frakir/raid/buie/astrometry
KBODIR - Directory where master list of objects of interest are located
(file name is 'oblist.dat'). The default directory is
/net/frakir/raid/buie/kbo.

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/05
2001/11/01, MWB, added new category
2002/01/14, MWB, added ASTDIR and KBODIR keywords.
2003/10/01, MWB, converted my Delfile call to system file_delete routine
2004/02/09, MWB, changed defaults for ASTDIR and KBODIR
2004/9/21, MWB, removed obsolete call to Findfile
2004/10/27, MWB, fixed some output bugs
2005/05/25, MWB, changes to file handling in reponse to changes in
ASTCOL and AST2TED for separating KBOs.