The YEARLYFAVORABLE.ZIP contains a set of files, one for each year from 1995-2050. Each file lists those asteroids reaching one of their five brightest apparitions during that same period in the given year.

Each line has three sets of brightest information, with the numbers increasing left-to-right, top-to-bottom.

The maximum length of each line is 141 characters, not counting the end-of-line pair.

Column Definition Number MPC-assigned number Name MPC-assigned name or designation Date UT calendar date to 0.1 d) V Approximate V magnitude

Here are some sample lines from the top of the file for 1995:

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