Derek,

The conversion is easy. I already supply a simple program for this on
my web page and had forgotten about it. Anyhow the 10000 asteroid
database is now updated and available at:

http://www.hnsky.org/hns_ast1.zip

The conversion program is available at:

http://www.hnsky.org/mpcorb.htm

And I also placed an update for the latest comet/ small asteroid file at:

http://www.hnsky.org/com_ast.zip

Clear skies, Han

han kleijn wrote:
> Derek,
>
> My intention was that people would update themselves from
> ftp://cfa-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/MPCORB/MPCORB.DAT. However I noticed
> today that the format is slightly different. You have to log in as:
>
> user: anonymous
> password: your email
>
> The epoch is in a shorter format. I will have a closer look this weekend.
>
>
> Clear skies, Han
>
>