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Planetary and lunar ephemerides, lunar laser ranging, and lunar physical librations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

X X Newhall ,
J. G. Williams  and
E. M. Standish Jr.
X X Newhall
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91109-8099 USA
J. G. Williams
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91109-8099 USA
E. M. Standish Jr.
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91109-8099 USA

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has recently produced a new integrated planetary and lunar ephemeris DE403/LE403. This ephemeris spans the interval JED 624912.5 (December 2, −3002, Julian) – JED 2817104.5 (November 14, 3000, Gregorian) and is an improvement on DE102 (Newhall et al., 1983) and DE200 (Standish, 1990). This integration carries the Cartesian states of the Sun, Moon, and planets, along with the three Euler angles describing the lunar physical librations.

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Type
Part II - Planets and Moon: Theory and Ephemerides
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 172: Dynamics, Ephemerides and Astrometry of the Solar System , 1996 , pp. 37 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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