Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: de423
Version: 2010.1
Summary: JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemeris DE423 for the jplephem package.
Home-page: https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-jplephem/
Author: Brandon Rhodes
Author-email: brandon@rhodesmill.org
License: MIT
Description: 
        This is the most recent short-period ephemeris published by the Jet
        Propulsion Laboratory.  It achieves especially high accuracy for Mercury
        and Venus since it was prepared for the MESSENGER mission, and should be
        able to predict the coordinates of those planets within a few
        milliarcseconds.
        
        :Name: DE423 (February 2010)
        :Years: 1800 through 2200
        :Planets: Yes
        :Sun/Moon: Yes
        :Nutations: Yes
        :Librations: Yes
        :Report: `Folkner (2010) [PDF] <ftp://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/spk/planets/de423_for_mercury_and_venus/de423.iom.pdf>`_
        :Size: 36 MB
        
        While lunar missions will want to use the slightly older ephemeris
        `DE421 <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/de421>`_ because of the extra
        accuracy that it provides for the Moon, general purpose users will
        probably find this ephemeris more useful, especially as it covers a full
        400 years instead of only 150 years.
        
        Similar accuracy can be expected from the long-term ephemeris `DE422
        <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/de422>`_ which also covers a period of 6000
        years, making it useful to astronomy historians.  But as it requires a
        half-gigabyte of disk space, some users may prefer DE423.
        
        To compute using this ephemeris in Python, see the `jplephem
        <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jplephem>`_ package.
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
