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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class PyPymeeus(PythonPackage):
+    """Library of astronomical algorithms in Python."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/architest/pymeeus"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/P/PyMeeus/PyMeeus-0.3.6.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.3.6', sha256='1f1ba0682e1b5c6b0cd6432c966e8bc8acc31737ea6f0ae79917a2189a98bb87')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')