Akatsuki (PLANET-C) trajectory data

Overview

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Files

1. Akatsuki2010May-2020Dec_1d.txt
   ASCII text data of the positions of Akatsuki, Earth and Venus in Earth mean equator and equinox of J2000 frame centered at the Sun with 1 day interval (May 2010 to December 2020)*
2. Akatsuki2010May-2020Dec_1h.txt
   ASCII text data of the positions of Akatsuki, Earth and Venus in Earth mean equator and equinox of J2000 frame centered at the Sun with 1 hour interval (May 2010 to December 2020)*

* Format of data 1 and 2 (given in the header part):
    column  1: Time in UTC (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS)
    column  2: Days from 2010 May 22, 00:00:00(UTC)
    column  3: Akatsuki-X (km)
    column  4: Akatsuki-Y (km)
    column  5: Akatsuki-Z (km)
    column  6: Earth-X (km)
    column  7: Earth-Y (km)
    column  8: Earth-Z (km)
    column  9: Venus-X (km)
    column 10: Venus-Y (km)
    column 11: Venus-Z (km)