https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/pioneer/pioneer10/particle/gtt/ip_15min_ascii/aareadme.txt This directory contains half-year files of 15-min count rates and related parameters from the the Geiger Tube Telescope (GTT) flown on Pioneer 10. The data were initially provided to NSSDC by the GTT team at U. Iowa in VMS binary format on magnetic tapes. They have been converted to ASCII format at GSFC/SPDF, with an almost complete retention of the original sequence of words in the data records. (Only unused words were dropped, and the spacecraft ID was moved.) The data, and their binary format, are extensively discussed at https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/pioneer/pioneer10/particle/gtt/aavoldesc.sfd. The format of the ASCII data contained in this directory follows: Length of record =1445bytes + LF Item number Format Function 1 A24 ASCII timecode format of start time (in spacecraft event time) 2 Note 1 I5 Year of Data 72,73 ...(ERT) 3 Note 1 I4 Day of Data (ERT) 4 Note 2 F11.8 Beginning Day Fraction (ERT) 5 F11.8 Ending Day Fraction (ERT) 6 I3 Spacecraft ID (10 or 11) 7 Note 3 I4 Length of Period in Minutes 8 Note 4 I4 Period Type 9 I4 Number of samples this interval 10-21 Note 5 12E13.5,1x Effective Counts 22-33 12E13.5,1x (Sum of Raw Counts)/.09375 34-45 12E13.5,1x Counting Rate Ave in Counts/sec 46-57 12E13.5,1x Sigma (Standard Deviation) 58-69 Note 6 12E13.5,1x M Fourier Coefficients 70-81 12E13.5,1x K " " 82-93 12E13.5,1x D " " 94-105 12E13.5 Sum of Raw Counts 106 I5 Number of Errors this Interval 107 Note 7 F11.3 Day and Day Fraction since 1950.0 108 F11.3 Radius to SC from earth in AU 109 F9.3 Earth-Sun distance in AU 110 F9.3 Radius to SC from the Sun in AU 111 Note 8 F9.3 Celestial Longitude of Earth 112 Note 8 F9.3 Celestial Longitude of SC 113 Note 9 F9.3 Longitude of Solar Equator + 270 114 Note 8 F15.11 Celestial Latitude of Earth 115 Note 8 F11.7 Celestial Latitude of SC 116 Note 9 F11.7 Heliographic Latitude of SC 117 Note 9 F11.7 Heliographic Latitude of Earth Note 1: Earth received time (ERT) for the data. Note 2: Beginning time is the time of the first data point found in the interval. The Ending time is the time of the last data point in the interval. Note 3: This number will be the number of minutes in the interval since these are quarter hour averages the number will be 15. Note 4: This is a number assigned to describe the accumulation period; for quarter hour averages it will be 1. Note 5: Items 10 through 105 represent 8 sets of values. The order of the detectors are as follows: Position Detector 1 G 2 A 3 B 4 G 5 AB 6 ABC 7 C 8 D 9 ABC 10 DEF 11 G + G 12 ABC + ABC Note 6: The Fourier Coefficients are used in the following formula. F(phi) = M ( 1 + K Cos ( phi - D ) ) Note 7: This time is spacecraft event time for the center time of the data used in the sum. Note 8: The celestial latitude and longitude are measured in a reference system using the Sun as the reference body body and the true ecliptic of date as the reference plane. This plane contains the vernal equinox and the longitudes are measured eastward from the line between the vernal equinox and the Sun. The latitudes are measured from the plane. Northward being positive. Note 9: Calculated quantities. Inclination of solar equator to ecliptic, I=7.25 degrees. Longitude of the ascending node of the solar equator on the ecliptic Omega=73 degrees+40 minutes +50.25*t seconds where t is the time in years reckoned from 1850.0 . Reference: Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, 1961, page 307. Note 10: All positional coordinates are referred to the equinox/ecliptic of date.