Ryann:
It's not so much a problem of how smart you are, what's needed is appreciating that different people do things differently.
I remember at a work site a plumber and an electrician were arguing after a switch was installed incorrectly by the plumber. It seems that when valves are open water flows, but when switches are open the current does not flow. The two fixed the problem at hand and agreed to disagree about who was right and who was wrong.
There is always a desire to pass a rule saying that every one does things the same way. The scope of the rule always falls short of achieving what was intended. Unless your a dictatorship like China which has only one time zone that spans a country wide enough for 5 of them.
The problem with minor planets like comets and asteroids is we have three hundred years of precise hand written documentation on paper. It would be nice to convert it all to a zero north standard so that it's more accessible to the general public, but no one has the budget or the inclination to do so. Surveyors and Astronomers agreed on a Gaza like truce with the land navigators and each has known about this little bump in the road for quite some time now.
We recently had a Physicist give a lecture about a telescope project. When questioned about the resolution of the instrument he gave his answer in micro-radians. There was a gasp of horror among the amateur astronomers who since the Phoenicians have used degrees,minutes and seconds. The Physicist wasn't being mean or showing off, It's just how he does all his record keeping.
It's part of the richness of human nature that people will always arrive at several ways of doing things, and it's OK.
DT