File: P10MAGJUP_FMT.txt                                 Version: 12/22/98 JFC
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One-minute Pioneer 10 Magnetic Field Data Within 7 Rj of Jupiter - Dec. 1973

Date/Time Coverage: 1973-12-03/21:50:59  to 1973-12-04/07:54:03 [GRT-UT] 

NSSDC Data Set ID: 72-012A-01G

Data Set Contact: Joyce Wolf, 

Experiment: Pioneer 10 Helium Vector Magnetometer (HVM)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Edward C. Smith, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
                        Pasadena, CA

Description: 

This directory contains the ASCII data file P10MAGJUP.asc from NSSDC data 
set 72-012A-01G for one minute jovicentric magnetic field data from the 
Pioneer 10 Helium Vector Magnetometer (HVM) within 7 Rj of Jupiter during the 
Dec. 1973 encounter. Times are given in Ground Received Time - UT. The file 
P10MAGJUP_NMC provides further information on this data set from the NSSDC 
Master Catalog,  

Data Format:

The data are in JG coordinates, defined as follows:  the X                 
axis is in the direction of G, the equatorial vector lying in the               
System III Prime Meridian, 1957.0;  the Z axis is in the direction              
of J, the spin axis of Jupiter; and the Y axis is parallel to                   
Jupiter's equatorial plane and completes a right-handed orthogonal              
system.                                                                         
                                                                                
     Each record is 80 bytes long, and contains the following data              
in the format (F7.4, 6F12.4):                                                   
                                                                                
      DTM     Ground received time in days (3.0 = Dec. 3, 00:00).               
              (Year = 1973 for Pioneer 10; 1974 for Pioneer 11.)                
                                                                                
      RR      Distance of Pioneer from Jupiter, in Jupiter radii.               
                                                                                
      RLTJG   Latitude of Pioneer in Jupiter-centered JG system.                
                                                                                
      RLNJG   Longitude of Pioneer in Jupiter-centered JG system.               
                                                                                
      BXJG    One-minute average of x-component of field in JG.                 
                                                                                
      BYJG    One-minute average of y-component of field in JG.                 
                                                                                
      BZJG    One-minute average of z-component of filed in JG.                 
                                                                                
     Angles are measured in degrees; fields in gammas.  
      

Related Information and Data:

Further details on the spacecraft, experiment, data sets at NSSDC, and related
WWW sites can be found on the Pioneer 10/11 flight project page under

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

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.
Citation of NSSDC's Coordinated Heliospheric Observations (COHO) data base
would also be appreciated, so that other potential users will be made aware of
this service.