Ephemeris

A description of the path of a celestial body indexed by time (from the Latin word, ephemeris, meaning diary). The navigation message from each GPS satellite includes a predicted ephemeris for the orbit of that satellite valid for the current hour. The ephemeris is repeated every 30 seconds and is in the form of a set of 16 Keplerian-like parameters with corrections that account for the perturbations to the orbit caused by the earth's gravitational field and other forces.