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The Moving Object Pipeline: discovery & tracking of trans-Neptunian objects
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temporary designation are wrong. #340

Open ijiraq opened 9 years ago

ijiraq commented 9 years ago

the validate script is producing names that don't comply with standards..

On Dec 18, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Brett Gladman gladman@astro.ubc.ca wrote:

Hi there, Let me just remind the victorians that designations cannot be a pure number...it causes problems for the Bern code. In the last .inp file JJ gave me there were things like '134' which caused problems. Also, I don't like how non-unique that may be for searches in the database. I dealt with this (like I did with other things) by just grafting a string on the front, so you can keep doing this but your names over there won't match ours over here.

No biggie, Brett