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                         IMCCE - Observatoire de Paris

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                                 1996 December
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CONTENTS :

    Ephemerides SLP96 : Solar, Lunar and Planetary ephemerides 1550-2350.

    These ephemerides consist in tables of Chebychev's polynomials coefficients
    which represent the mean coordinates J2000 of the Sun, Moon and 8 planets
    Mercury, Venus, Earth-Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
    on the time span 1550-2350.

    They have been computed with the theories of Bureau des longitudes
    VSOP87 (Sun and planets) and ELP2000-82B (Moon).
    References :
    1988, P. Bretagnon and G. Francou.
          Planetary theories in rectangular and spherical variables.
          VSOP87 solutions.
          Astron. & Astrophys., 202, 309.
    1988, M. Chapront-Touze and J. Chapront.
          ELP 2000-85 : a semi-analytical lunar ephemeris adequate for
          historical time.
          Astron. & Astrophys., 190, 342.
    1983, M. Chapront-Touze and J. Chapront.
          The Lunar ephemeris ELP 2000.
          Astron. & Astrophys., 124, 50.

AUTHORS' ADDRESS :

    J. Chapront and G. Francou
    Bureau des Longitudes
    Group : Dynamics of Solar System
    77, avenue Denfert-Rochereau
    F-75014 Paris - France
    E-mail : francou@imcce.fr
    Phone  : (33) 01 40 51 22 60
    Fax    : (33) 01 46 33 28 34

DESCRIPTION :

    The ephemerides SLP96 are available in 8 sequential ASCII files slp96.
    Each one has the same structure and contains Chebychev ephemerides
    covering a century within the interval 1550-2350.
    Fortran programs allow the user to install the files and to compute
    coordinates of the bodies.
    A file of test values is also provided for checking the coordinates
    after the installation.
    Explanations about files SLP96 and sofware package are given in the
    file slp96.doc.

FILES :

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    FileName      Type     Size   Explanations
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    README         asc            This file
    slp96.doc      asc     7 Ko   Notice for the use of the files SLP96.
    slp96.s16      asc    19 Mo   Epherides SLP96 1550-1650.
    slp96.s17      asc    19 Mo   Epherides SLP96 1650-1750.
    slp96.s18      asc    19 Mo   Epherides SLP96 1750-1850.
    slp96.s19      asc    19 Mo   Epherides SLP96 1850-1950.
    slp96.s20      asc    19 Mo   Epherides SLP96 1950-2050.
    slp96.s21      asc    19 Mo   Epherides SLP96 2050-2150.
    slp96.s22      asc    19 Mo   Epherides SLP96 2150-2250.
    slp96.s23      asc    19 Mo   Epherides SLP96 2250-2350.
    install.f      asc     5 Ko   Fortran program for the installation.
    merge.f        asc     6 Ko   Fortran program for merging two files.
    extract.f      asc     7 Ko   Fortran program for extracting a sub-file.
    view.f         asc     9 Ko   Fortran program for displaying a file.
    testeph.f      asc    17 Ko   Fortran program for computing coordinates.
    testeph.val    asc   389 Ko   Test values for checking the results.
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