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I was wondering if anyone had files that have the correct trajectory for the spacecraft that crashed into Jupiter today. I have one, that I downloaded a long time ago that does not crash into Jupiter, it passes as close as 1 million km from the planet and then stops.

thanks

I did a search in the forums for 'Galileo Death Plunge' yesterday and found Jack's xyz.

Get Jack Higgins XYZ from here http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelestia/
Its very good

I looked all over that site and I didn't find the Galileo spacecraft files. All I found are the files for Galileo's probe. The Galileo probe crashed into Jupiter in December 1995.

I'm actually looking for the files of the Galileo spacecraft itself. The one that's been orbiting Jupiter since 1995 and that crashed in the planet last Sunday.

Thanks

I'm sure Jack said he will do a full XYZ file for Galileo, when the mission is over, once he has all the finished information from the mission.

Fred...the file you are looking for can be found here:
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3256

I looked at it yesterday...it is the correct xyz for end of mission.

Regards...bh.

Yup, the xyz file on that thread isn't linked to on my site, but it is very accurate for the final plunge period. (Bit late now though...)

I will be making a full (and probably HUGE) galileo xyz as soon as I get some time to do it. Horizons may have fine-tuned their trajectory by then too... (The current final part might be a tiny bit off i'm not sure..)

Thanks, it worked!