SSE plugin: Asteroids above 619999 cannot be imported in MPC-1 liner format.

[mizunyang]

Expected Behaviour

I would like to be able to import MPC-1 lines for minor planet that have been recently discovered and assigned Permanent Designations that begin with a tilde sign.
https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/info/PackedDes.html

Actual Behaviour

SSE does not seem to be able to import recently discovered minor planet.

Steps to reproduce

1. MPC Website
   Minor Planet & Comet Ephemeris Service
   https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html
   Enter 697402 in the object search text field
   Select MPC-1 Line from the list of element output formats.
   Click on the “Get ephemerides/HTML Page” button to download the file.

2. Stellarium
   Solor System Editor -> Import orbital elements in MPC format...
   Check the radio button “A file containing a list of object” and select the downloaded file.
   Click on the “Get orbital elements" button. However, there is no response to the UI.
   

3. Stellarium logfile
   Log messages written in the “log file” section are recorded.

System

• Stellarium version: stellarium-24.2-qt6-win64.exe
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Version10.0.22631 Build 22631
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA RTX3060
• Screen type (if applicable): 2560 x 1440

Logfile

readMpcOneLineMinorPlanetElements(): "~0K8Q" is not a valid number or packed IAU designation
Done reading minor planet orbital elements. Recognized 0 candidate objects out of 1 lines.

[github-actions]

Hello @mizunyang!

Thank you for suggesting this enhancement.

[github-actions]

Hello @mizunyang!

Please check the fresh version (development snapshot) of Stellarium:
https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/tag/weekly-snapshot

[mizunyang]

Thank you for quickly responding to the issue.
I was able to confirm that the MPC import was successful with stellarium-24.2-2c2b03d-qt6-win64.exe.

[github-actions]

Hello @mizunyang!

Please check the latest stable version of Stellarium:
https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/releases/latest