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The JPL “Long Ephemeris”, DE102/LE51

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. Myles Standish Jr.*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109 U.S.A.

Abstract

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A number of applications exist in astronomical research for planetary and lunar ephemerides covering an extended length of time. This paper discusses such a set of ephemerides, DE102/LE51, produced at JPL, covering the time 1411 B.C. to 3001 A.D. The ephemerides are dynamically self-consistent, in that the equations of motion were integrated simultaneously. They also represent the most accurately known positions covering such a time span. They have already been used by a number of different users in a variety of different applications.

Type
Part I - Satellites and Planets
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983

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