File: AAREADME.TXT                          Version: NSSDC 11/15/2001 JFC
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Interplanetary Heliocentric Coordinates for the Helios 2 Spacecraft

Data Contact:

   Prof. John W. Freeman
   Department of Space Physics
   Rice University
   PO Box 1892
   Houston, TX   77251
   Internet: FREEMAN@ALFVEN.RICE.EDU
   DECnet: RICE::FREEMAN

Description:

This directory includes hourly heliocentric coordinate data in 
subdirectory HOUR for the Helios 2 spacecraft as extracted from the 
merged solar wind magnetic and plasma data set in HELIOS_2/MGD_FREEMAN.  


Related Information and Data:

Further details on the spacecraft, experiment, data sets at NSSDC, and 
related WWW sites can be found on the Helios 1/2 flight project page:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/

Hour averages of the interplanetary solar wind data from, and hourly 
heliocentric coordinates of, Helios 1/2 and other interplanetary 
spacecraft may be also be accessed and plotted on-line through the 
COHOWeb service based at the same WWW site as above.

Acknowledgement:

Use of these data in publications should be accompanied at minimum by
acknowledgements of the National Space Science Data Center and the 
responsible Principal Investigator defined in the experiment 
documentation provided here.