--- On Fri, 27 Dec 1996 23:55:56 -0500 (EST) Jay Respler <jrespler@injersey.com> wrote: >Is there some simple quick way to sort date, #, and letter? A-Z have to come before AA-AZ. >I have DOS, Windows, QSORT, WordPerfect and a spreadsheet. A QUICK way would be to use SatSpy2 (Windows) and use the sorting feature of that program to sort either by cat.no. or name. Then use Allen Thomson's large elset file. Since Thomson doesn't use noun names in his file, SatSpy2 will use the int. designation in place of the noun name. Of course his file doesn't include all sats, but a large proportion of them. A couple of months ago he increased the number to include additional sats, but I haven't seen any additional increases lately. A link to SatSpy2 can be found (of course) at: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/sat/orbsoft.html One of the places to find Thomson's elsets is at: ftp://kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/space/elements/satelem/ >This recently cataloged object has 2 different catalog #s. Which is right? > >24647 66-077D OPS 0856 DEB US 167.2 89.5 4342 3009 >23820 66-077D OPS 0856 DEB US 164.5 88.3 6251 880 .042 My data base (on SatPro) shows 24647 as 66-077P. That makes sense as the OIG database shows 24312 as 66-077N and I believe they don't use the letter O so as not to confuse it with the number 0. I guess they shouldn't use the letters D and P either;-) Jeff Hunt <jhunt@eagle1.eaglenet.com>