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Knowledge of
surface composition of asteroids and comets are important because of
their size. Early solar system materials from which all the bodies are
formed gets modified in large objects like planets due to physical and
chemical changes that take place due to their large gravity and size. In
small objects these early materials remain almost intact and hence
forms the basis of study of the early age of solar system. Apart from
that, knowledge of surface nature of such bodies may become important in
future when it will be necessary to land on such bodies during manned
interplanetary (infact interstellar too) missions towards Mars and other
distant objects like Jupiter's satellite Europa or Saturn's satellite
Titan, for refueling the spacecraft, conducting scientific research and
space engineering related tasks. Importance of gathering knowledge about
these minor bodies of our solar system is so immense that all the space
agencies are planning new space missions to study these objects... VISIT THE PAGE.
The Gnuplot is an open source software for plotting 2D or 3D graphs with various functionality. It can plot graphs from both datafile where data is contained in column wise tabular format or directly an equation. Although it is a powerful plotting software it was originally built for Linux environment and hence has always been command line based interface. Although now Gnuplot is available for windows too but still mostly Gnuplot remains a command line interface... VISIT THE PAGE.
In FORTRAN it is very easy to access a data file which contains data in column wise tebular format. But unfortunately in Python, there is no direct way to read data column wise and hence it often becomes difficult to deal with data in many cases. The package tablefile 0.0.2 has been developed in the aim to solve this problem in Python and it is very easy to use... VISIT THE PAGE.
Declaring an array variable of multiple dimension in languages like C, C++, Fortran etc. are quite straight forward, but unfortunately, despite of immense popularity Python was lacking a way to express an N-dimensional array with some default value for each of the elements. The methods presently in use to express an array variable needs the value of the each element be declared by the programmer when it is created. While for small arrays that may not be problematic, but ... VISIT THE PAGE.