Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: HorizonJPL
Version: 0.1.6
Summary: Access to NASA's JPL HORIZON Ephemeris System
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/HorizonJPL/
Author: Matthew Mihok
Author-email: matthew.mihok@niewma.com
License: LICENSE.txt
Description: NASA's JPL HORIOZON Ephemeris System API
        ===============
        This Python API, is an effort towards opening NASA's PDS data sets to the public with a focus on ease of access. Thus creating, NASA's JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System API
        
        Background
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        From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris:
        
            For scientific uses, a modern planetary ephemeris comprises software that generates positions of planets and often of 
            their satellites, asteroids, or comets, at virtually any time desired by the user.
        
        
        API Documentation
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        https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g9q3ln9LVAATOZ15986HLTCaqcAj_Jd8e_jOGS3YWrE/pub
        
        Resources
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        Planetary Data System: http://pds.nasa.gov/
        
        Jet Propulsion Labs: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
        
        HORIZON User Manual: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons_doc
        
        
        Contributors
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        Matthew Mihok (@mattmattmatt)
        Dexter Jagula (@djagula)
        Siddarth Kalra (@SiddarthKalra)
        Tiago Moreira (@Kamots)
        
        v0.0.1, 2013-Apr-18 -- Initial release.
        
        v0.0.2, 2013-Apr-21 -- Alpha release for NASA hackathon
        
        v0.1.0, 2013-Apr-22 -- Package distribution release
        
        v0.1.1, 2013-Apr-22 -- Updating package meta data
        
        v0.1.2, 2013-Apr-22 -- Fixing standalone executable
        
        v0.1.3, 2013-Apr-22 -- Removing bin standalone, adding convenience request_handler
        
        v0.1.4, 2013-Apr-30 -- Changing API Calls major->get_major, minor->get_minor respectively
        
        v0.1.5, 2013-May-05 -- Fixing major bodies query
          * Fixing json output to include id, name, designation, and 
        alias
          * Fixing major body type specification to return accuratly
        
        v0.1.6, 2013-May-05 -- Fixing minor bodies query
        
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