EclipseHelio:

Path: Interplanetary/Ephemeris

% Determines eclipses in heliocentric coordinates.

 You must initialize the JPL ephemerides prior to using this function.
 For example, with the earth and moon.

   PlanetPosJPL( 'initialize', [3 10] );

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   Form:
   nEclipse = EclipseHelio( r, rP, planetID )
   nEclipse = EclipseHelio( r, [], planetID, jD )
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   Inputs
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   r         (3,1) Position vector of spacecraft (km)
   rP        (3,:) Heliocentric planet positions
   planetID  (1,:) Planet IDs corresponding to the output of PlanetPosJPL
   jD        (1,:) Julian dates

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   Outputs
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   nEclipse	(1,:) Eclipse fraction

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Children:

Interplanetary: Ephemeris/PlanetPosJPL
SC: Ephem/Eclipse

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