[IGSMAIL-6204] updated IERS Conventions Chapters 3, 5, 6

Gérard Petit gpetit at bipm.org
Fri Jul 23 09:16:47 PDT 2010


Author: Gérard Petit (IERS Conventions Center)


Information on the updates to the IERS Conventions.

The IERS Conventions Center informs of the following updates:

Minor corrections have been brought to three chapters of the IERS
Conventions on 23 July 2010:

Chapter 3 "Conventional dynamical realization of the ICRS" see
http://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/convupdt_c3.html. 
Information added on the time argument of the JPL ephemerides.

Chapter 5 "Transformation between the International Terrestrial Reference
System and Geocentric Celestial Reference System" see
http://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/convupdt_c5.html.
Corrections to the electronic tables 5.2a and 5.2b to make them consistent
with the text.

Chapter 6 "Geopotential" see
http://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/convupdt_c6.html.
Coefficients modified in equations, now numbered 19, in section 6.5.

Gérard Petit and Brian Luzum
IERS Conventions Center





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