Turn each locked moon at its orbit's rate and Iapetus's pole round its orbit, so they face their planets at every date the clock reaches
The IAU gives a locked moon's W the mean motion of whichever orbit its authors had, and JPL's table has another. Near the present the difference is nothing; over the clock's AD 1 to 3000 it turned Proteus's far side to Neptune at AD 1 (146 degrees), Mimas 52 degrees from Saturn and Miranda 23. Iapetus was worse for another reason: its IAU pole is a straight line, 3.9 degrees a century in right ascension, through its orbit normal's 3 439-year circle round the Laplace pole, which by AD 1 has run past the celestial pole (Dec 97.9), 11 degrees off the orbit, with the face 87 degrees from Saturn. Mimas and Iapetus carry mission maps, so a wrong hemisphere was drawn facing Saturn. The ETL's lock check sampled only 1950-2100, so none of it failed. tools/etl/lib/locked-spin.ts, lockedToOrbit, called for every locked moon: - W's rate becomes the orbit's own mean motion, its constant moved so W is unchanged on 2025-01-01; the pole and every periodic term stay the IAU's. A W with a quadratic is left (Phobos's orbit already takes it; the Moon's is its tidal slowing, 0.75 degrees at AD 1). The kernel's rate must be within 1e-5 of the orbit's first (at most 3.4e-6, Iapetus). - Iapetus (poleFollowsOrbit): the pole follows its orbit normal, as a moon in a Cassini state does, in the IAU's own form: sines of the node's angle and four harmonics on right ascension, cosines on declination, fitted to the normal's circle and pinned to the IAU pole at the present; W takes sines of the same angles, fitted to hold the face where it is today. build.ts samples the lock over AD 1 to 3000 (8 114 dates, every 135 days) instead of 1950-2100, and subPlanetLongitudeDeg moved to the lib, shared by both. Measured on the real catalogue: at most 5.36 degrees (Titan) but the Moon 7.62 (its eccentricity, and W's quadratic at AD 1: a new named ceiling of 8), Mimas 8.94 (ceiling 11 -> 9.5) and Iapetus 15.95 (19 -> 16.5, 9.4 of it its row's lag); Proteus's own ceiling of 9 is gone, at 2.66. Iapetus's axis stays within 0.74 degrees of its orbit normal (11.06 before) and its pole is the IAU's at the present to 1e-4 degrees. Live on :4301, the longitude facing the planet at AD 1 / 1000 / 2025 / 2999: Proteus 2.6 / 2.6 / 2.6 / 2.6 (was -146.5 / -72.9 / 2.6 / 74.5), Iapetus -15.9 / -15.4 / -15.3 / -9.3 (-87.0 / -50.9 / -15.3 / 22.8), Mimas 4.1 / 6.8 / 5.7 / 8.4 (48.6 / 29.3 / 5.7 / -13.0), Miranda -0.1 / 2.2 / 0.0 / 1.4 (-23.4 / -9.6 / 0.0 / 12.6); the present is unchanged. The renderer spec now takes the rotational elements from bodies.json too, so no hand copy is left, and a new test turns Proteus, Miranda, Mimas and Iapetus to their planets at AD 1 and AD 3000. Guarded mutants, each run through the solar ETL and then the full suite on what it wrote: lockedToOrbit bypassed (validator: Mimas 52.30, ceiling 9.5; the new test fails), Iapetus on the IAU's straight pole (98.48), and its pole round the orbit without W's terms (73.13); each fails the new test and only it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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obliquityDeg?: number;
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/**
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* Where the body's pole points and which way its prime meridian faces at any date, from the IAU
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* WGCCRE 2015 report (Archinal et al. 2018) as NAIF's `pck00011.tpc` carries it. Where present
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* it alone sets how the body is drawn, and the ETL checks the period and obliquity above against
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* it. Absent where the report gives none: Hyperion tumbles, and Nereid, Eris, Haumea and
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* Makemake have no model.
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* WGCCRE 2015 report (Archinal et al. 2018) as NAIF's `pck00011.tpc` carries it, but that a locked
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* moon's W turns at its drawn orbit's rate and Iapetus's pole goes round with its orbit's, so they
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* keep their faces to their planets over the clock's AD 1 to 3000 (see `lockedToOrbit` in the
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* ETL). Where present it alone sets how the body is drawn, and the ETL checks the period and
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* obliquity above against it. Absent where the report gives none: Hyperion tumbles, and Nereid,
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* Eris, Haumea and Makemake have no model.
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*/
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rotationalElements?: RotationalElements;
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}
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