Cassini MIMI Investigation at Fundamental Technologies
Numerical Computation of Energy-Dependent Geometric Factors of E and F Electron Detectors of CASSINI/MIMI/LEMMS
Technical Report by Xiaodong Hong and Thomas P. Armstrong, May 10, 1997
Appendix A Coordinates and Coefficients of the Polygon Planes
A polygon plane is described as:
Ax + By + Cz + D = 0
The following table shows the coefficients for each modeled polygon plane of the Cassini/MIMI/LEMMS system. The first column gives the plane number, the second column the number of vertexes, and the other columns are the A, B, C, and D coefficients respectively. The file is named coeffc.dat.
The following table gives the number of vertexes and the coordinates (x, y, z) of each vertex in the corresponding poly plane given in the previous table. The file used in the program is named coordc.dat.
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Mission Duration: The Cassini-Huygens mission launched on October 15 1997, and ended on September 15 2017.
Destination: Cassini's destination was Saturn and its moons. The destination of the Huygens Probe's was Saturn's moon Titan.
Orbit: Cassini orbited Saturn for 13 years before diving between its rings and colliding with the planet on September 15th, 2017.