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We now turn to our own solar system and not surprisingly the Internet has an embarrassment of riches on offer. The standard method of finding data on solar system bodies has been the traditional Astronomical or Nautical Almanac and its ephemerides for each year. These feature the (almost) daily tabulated positions and properties of celestial bodies but to the uninitiated they hardly make for enjoyable bedtime reading! To be fair, for the professional or the serious amateur researcher these are still an essential resource but to the ordinary amateur there are now more user-friendly ways of getting the data we want.
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Ratledge, D. (1999). Data Sources II — the Solar System: Planets, Asteroids and Comets. In: Software and Data for Practical Astronomers. Practical Astronomy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0555-8_4
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