[Iaude] MPEC B180: EDITORIAL NOTICE

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M.P.E.C. 2024-B180                             Issued 2024 January 31, 19:33 UT

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         minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites,
         and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published
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                                EDITORIAL NOTICE                                

    The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is announcing a minor update to the digest2
code. The updated code will become operational on Feb 1 at 00:00 UTC. The digest2 
score is used by the MPC to score tracklets submitted to NEOCP: only tracklets 
with scores above 65 can be posted to NEOCP.

    The latest update includes a bug fix in digest2.c source code, an updated
population model reflecting the MPCORB catalog from Jan 22, 2024 (1.34 million
orbits), and the addition of three observatory codes with expected astrometric 
uncertainties.

The digest2 code can be downloaded from the following Bitbucket repository: 
https://bitbucket.org/mpcdev/digest2
The population model and the configuration file with the obscodes can be
downloaded from https://bitbucket.org/mpcdev/digest2/downloads/

M. P. C. Staff               (C) Copyright 2024 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2024-B180