A MATLAB Implementation of the SLP96 Ephemeris

This MATLAB function, slp96.m, and script, demo_slp.m, demonstrate how to read SLP96 binary ephemeris files and calculate the position and velocity vectors of a planet, the moon and the sun in either the J2000 FK5 or dynamical coordinate systems. The slp96.m function was ported to MATLAB using the ASCII data files and Fortran source code subroutine provided by the Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides (IMCCE). These ASCII data files and Fortran source code can be found on the IMCCE ftp server at ftp://ftp.imcce.fr/pub/ephem/sun/slp96/.