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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): LaMont Jones
  • Date: 2004-08-24 07:14:00 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.1 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20040824071400-2dr4qnjbjmm8z3ia
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Put JPL digital ephemeris files (DE200, DE405, or DE406) here to use
 
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for computing planetary positions.  Xplanet uses Bill Gray's code
 
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(http://www.projectpluto.com/jpl_eph.htm), which reads both big and
 
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little endian binary files.  The ephemeris files found at
 
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ftp://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/eph/export/unix are big endian files, but
 
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you do not need to do any additional byte-swapping to use them.