00476: update default radius of the moon

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Summary: update default radius of the moon

Created: 2013–02–15 13:29

Status: Released

Category: Request

From: frankie

Version: 2.2

Released_In: 2.3

Description:

Many sources of moon data use a radius of the moon of 1737400 meters, which comes out to 68401611.74 inches. We have been using a slightly different (and possibly more accurate number in EDGE as the default equatorial and polar radius of the moon.

This request is to change the default so that it more closely aligns with the more common radius used in many of NASA's data files. Of course, you are always free to change this by overriding the following variables in the DEFINES block of your user.cfg:

PLANET2_MOON_EQ_RADIUS PLANET2_MOON_POL_RADIUS

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Comments

frankie February 15, 2013, at 01:33 PM: This has been done. Simply override if you want to go back to the previous values or any other value. The diff is below:

-        PLANET2_MOON_EQ_RADIUS   68824800.0
-        PLANET2_MOON_POL_RADIUS  68824800.0
+        PLANET2_MOON_EQ_RADIUS   68401611.74
+        PLANET2_MOON_POL_RADIUS  68401611.74

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Associated Commits

| commit | a4c4a1ba2d76632042d03f6c397616a9f962f7d7 link5 | || | Author: | Frank Graffagnino | | Date: | Fri Feb 15 13:34:07 2013 -0600 | | Message: | [@Issue 00476: Updating moon default radius to better match commonly used values The new radius is now 68401611.74 inches. @] |

Affected Files:

edge_settings.cfg | 6 ++±--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)