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Hi
I had the opportunity to read the article of Ryan S. Park about DE440 and DE441. The article specifies that Vondrak (2011) precession expressions are used but I was unable to find the value of the secular acceleration of the Moon. Of course, the article refers to the secular acceleration but unlike the article about DE430 and DE431, there is no value specified. Maybe the value will be specified when HORIZONS JPL switches from DE431 to DE441.
Thank you for all the great improvements of next version.
Anyway, I will let you know ASAP if I find the value of the secular acceleration later on.
Regards.
Hi,
thanks for the info. Still a mystery to me why the lunar orbit diverges this way, I’m pretty sure the computing engine is ok (never say never though) simply because it’s the same I used for DE431. I’ve checked any mass value involved, and EMRAT (Earth-Moon barycentre ratio) is basically the same.
Anyway the next version should be out on next weekend.
Regards