[Spice_discussion] Re: Planetary Masses

[Diane Conner]

Nicole,

Cassini has made such a file.  Please see:
ftp://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/CASSINI/kernels/pck/cpck01Oct2002.tpc

I believe it is based upon de405.

Diane

At 1:00 PM -0800 1/30/03, Nicole Rappaport wrote:
>Dear Friends:
>
>This is my first time using spice_discussion and I am not sure I am
>doing the right thing.  Chuck, could you either confirm that I did it
>right or, otherwise,  tell me how to do it right?
>
>We need a PCK file of planetary masses that are consistent with the
>latest planetary ephemerides (de405).  Once upon a time, I tried to make
>such a PCK file and then realized that there were a lot of information I
>did not have.  The NAIF people are the best to generate this PCK file.
>
>One example of instance in which we need this PCK file is for PREDICTS,
>but there are many other instances.
>
>I would appreciate comments.
>
>Regards,
>Nicole


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