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Merges two JPL binary ephemeris files into a third binary ephemeris file.
eph2eph reads in two JPL binary ephemeris files and merges them into a third binary ephemeris file. The first two files must have the same JPL ephemeris number, Earth-Moon Mass Ratio (EMRAT), distance of an AU (in kilometers), number of constants in the header, and number of coefficients in a data block. Otherwise, they were not generated from the same ephemeris and are not compatible.
The two input files must be adjacent in time, with either one ending exactly where the other begins, or with some overlap between the end of the first file and the beginning of the second. Otherwise, there would be a gap with unknown coefficients for a date span.
As an intentional side effect, eph2eph will remove several formatting errors in the original JPL files: the last data block (a copy of the second to last block) is not repeated; ASCII start and stop dates in the header are corrected; ipt[*][0] and lpt[0] contain the next possible coefficient location rather than 0 (this is the preferred format, as communicated by JPL's Myles Standish to Paul Hardy); data in unused portions of the header is set to all zeroes.
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