Re: Giotto Earth flyby - orbital data

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Raoul wrote:

>Mean anomaly will be more useful to to calculations about ephemerides...
>Are these elements J2000 or "mean" equator and ecliptic of the date ?

and Tony replied:

> Just as much to the point is the epoch of these ecliptic based elements
> Ed, are they for the time of perigee mentioned in the hyperbolic form ? 

I'm afraid I don't know the answer but have sent a follow-up 
inquiry (and included your e-mail addresses just in case the 
source might be interested in replying directly).

By the way, I also sent that information to the NASA Horizons 
site that generates ephemerides:

 http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html

(Thanks for the reminder, Randy!  I had forgotten about that -- 
or at least a similar site -- that was publicized back when NEAR 
did its flyby.)

Now, I'll send this and another msg and then must get a bit of
shuteye!

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
 

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