Celestial Bodies¶

Note

The contents of this module are placed here for organisational reasons. They should be imported from astrodynamics.bodies.

class astrodynamics.bodies.celestialbody.CelestialBody(name, ellipsoid, mu, naif_id)¶

Celestial body.

Parameters:	name – Name of the celestial body. ellipsoid (`Ellipsoid`) – Representative ellipsoid. mu – Standard gravitational parameter [m³·s^-2] naif_id – NAIF ID for body.

classmethod from_reference_ellipsoid(name, ellipsoid, naif_id)¶

Construct from a ReferenceEllipsoid, which provides mu.

Parameters:	name – Name of the celestial body. ellipsoid (`ReferenceEllipsoid`) – Representative ellipsoid. naif_id – NAIF ID for celestial body.

Predefined Celestial Bodies¶

astrodynamics.bodies.celestialbody.earth¶: A CelestialBody initialised from the wgs84 reference ellipsoid.