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#### Procedure

       void getelm_c ( SpiceInt         frstyr,
                       SpiceInt         lineln,
                       const void     * lines,
                       SpiceDouble    * epoch,
                       SpiceDouble    * elems   )

#### Abstract

      Given a the "lines" of a two-line element set, parse the
      lines and return the elements in units suitable for use
      in SPICE software.

#### Required_Reading

       None.

#### Keywords

       PARSING

#### Brief_I/O

       VARIABLE  I/O  DESCRIPTION
       --------  ---  --------------------------------------------------
       frstyr     I   Year of earliest representable two-line elements.
       lineln     I   Length of strings in lines array.
       lines      I   A pair of "lines" containing two-line elements.
       epoch      O   The epoch of the elements in seconds past J2000.
       elems      O   The elements converted to SPICE units.

#### Detailed_Input

       frstyr    is the first year possible for two line elements. Since
                 two line elements allow only two digits for the year, some
                 conventions must be followed concerning which century the
                 two digits refer to.  frstyr is the year of the earliest
                 representable elements. The two-digit year is mapped to
                 the year in the interval from frstyr to frstyr + 99 that
                 has the same last two digits as the two digit year in the
                 element set.  For example if frstyr is set to 1960  then
                 the two digit years are mapped as shown in the table
                 below:

                 Two-line         Maps to
                 element year

                    00            2000
                    01            2001
                    02            2002
                     .              .
                     .              .
                     .              .
                    58            2058
                    59            2059
                   --------------------
                    60            1960
                    61            1961
                    62            1962
                     .              .
                     .              .
                     .              .
                    99            1999

                  Note that if Space Command should decide to represent
                  years in 21st century as 100 + the last two digits of the
                  year (for example: 2015 is represented as 115) instead of
                  simply dropping the first two digits of the year, this
                  routine will correctly map the year as long as you set
                  frstyr to some value between 1900 and 1999.

       lines      is a pair of lines of text that comprise a Space command
                  ``two-line element'' set.  lines should be declared

                     SpiceChar lines[2][lineln];

                  These text lines should be the same as they are presented
                  in the two-line element files available from Space
                  Command (formerly NORAD). Below is an example of a
                  two-line set for TOPEX.

       TOPEX
       1 22076U 92052A   97173.53461370 -.00000038  00000-0  10000-3 0   594
       2 22076  66.0378 163.4372 0008359 278.7732  81.2337 12.80930736227550

#### Detailed_Output

       epoch      is the epoch of the two line elements supplied via
                  the input array lines.  Epoch is returned in TDB
                  seconds past J2000.

       elems      is an array containing the elements from the two line
                  set supplied via the array lines.  The elements are
                  in units suitable for use by the CSPICE routine
                  ev2lin_.

                  Also note that the elements XNDD6O and BSTAR
                  incorporate the exponential factor present in the
                  input two line elements in LINES.  (See particulars
                  below.

                      ELEMS [ 0 ] = XNDT2O in radians/minute**2
                      ELEMS [ 1 ] = XNDD6O in radians/minute**3
                      ELEMS [ 2 ] = BSTAR
                      ELEMS [ 3 ] = XINCL  in radians
                      ELEMS [ 4 ] = XNODEO in radians
                      ELEMS [ 5 ] = EO
                      ELEMS [ 6 ] = OMEGAO in radians
                      ELEMS [ 7 ] = XMO    in radians
                      ELEMS [ 8 ] = XNO    in radians/minute
                      ELEMS [ 9 ] = EPOCH of the elements in seconds
                                    past ephemeris epoch J2000.

#### Parameters

       None.

#### Exceptions

       No checking of the inputs is performed in this routine. However, this
       routine does call other CSPICE routines. If one of these routines
       detects an error it will diagnose it and signal an error.

#### Files

       You must have loaded a SPICE leapseconds kernel into the
       kernel pool prior to caling this routine.

#### Particulars

       This routine parses a Space Command Two-line element set and returns
       the orbital elements properly scaled and in units suitable for use
       by other SPICE software.  Input elements look like the following

#### Examples

       Suppose you have a set of two-line elements and an array containing
       the related geophysical constants necessary to evaluate a state.
       The example below shows how you can use this routine together with
       the routine EV2LIN to propagate a state to an epoch of interest.

          #include <string.h>
          #include <stdio.h>
          #include "SpiceUsr.h"

          SpiceDouble         et;
          SpiceDouble         epoch;
          SpiceInt            frstyr;
              .
              .
              .
          /.
          The parameters below will make it easier to make assignments
          to the array GEOPHS required by EV2LIN.

             J2  --- location of J2
             J3  --- location of J3
             J4  --- location if J4
             KE  --- location of KE = sqrt(GM) in eart-radii**1.5/MIN
             QO  --- location of upper bound of atmospheric model in KM
             SO  --- location of lower bound of atmospheric model in KM
             ER  --- location of earth equatorial radius in KM.
             AE  --- location of distance units/earth radius
          ./

          #define  J2 0
          #define  J3 1
          #define  J4 2
          #define  KE 3
          #define  QO 4
          #define  SO 5
          #define  ER 6
          #define  AE 7

          /.
          We set the lower bound for the years to be the beginning
          of the space age.
          ./
          frstyr  =  1957;

          /.
          Read in the next two lines from the text file that contains
          the two-line elements.  We assume that file has been opened
          properly and that we have set the ``file pointer'' to the
          correct location for reading the next set of elements.
          ./

          for ( i = 0; i < 2; i++ )
          {
             fgets ( line[i], lineln, textfile );
             line[i][ strlen(line[i]) ] = '\0';
          }

          getelm_c ( frstyr, lineln, line, &epoch, elems );

          /.
          Set up the geophysical quantities.  At last check these
          were the values used by Space Command.
          ./

          geophs[ J2 ] =    1.082616e-3;
          geophs[ J3 ] =   -2.53881e-6;
          geophs[ J4 ] =   -1.65597e-6;
          geophs[ KE ] =    7.43669161e-2;
          geophs[ QO ] =  120.0;
          geophs[ SO ] =   78.0;
          geophs[ ER ] = 6378.135;
          geophs[ AE ] =    1.0;

          /.
          Now propagate the state using ev2lin_ to the epoch of
          interest.
          ./
          ev2lin_ ( &et, geophs, elems, state );

#### Restrictions

      The format of the two-line elements suffer from a "millenium"
      problem---only two digits are used for the year of the elements. It
      is not clear how Space Command will deal with this problem as the
      year 2000 comes and goes.  We hope that by adjusting the input frstyr
      you should be able to use this routine well into the 21st century.
      However, since we can't predict how others will resolve the millenium
      problem we can't be sure that our approach will be addequate to deal
      with the problem.

      The approach taken to mapping the two-digit year to the full year is
      given by the code below. Here, yr is the integer obtained by parsing
      the two-digit year from the first line of the elements.

          begyr = (frstyr/100)*100;
          year  = begyr + yr;

          if ( year < frstyr )
          {
             year += 100;
          }

       This mapping will be changed if future two-line element
       representations make this method of computing the full year
       inaccurate.

#### Literature_References

       None.

#### Author_and_Institution

       N.J. Bachman    (JPL)
       W.L. Taber      (JPL)

#### Version

       -CSPICE Version 1.0.1, 15-NOV-2007 (EDW)

          Minor edits to example section; the getelm_c call lacked
          the 'lineln' argument, the use of 'et' implied a pointer
          rather than a value.

       -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 06-AUG-1999 (NJB) (WLT)

#### Index_Entries

       Parse two-line elements

#### Link to routine getelm_c source file getelm_c.c

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