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When attempting conversion from Cartesian coordinates to geodetic coordinates for very far points (typically Sun),
the conversion fails with an internal error exception as a loop which should always converge fails to converge.

Changing the accuracy threshold sometimes work, but it really error prone.

An example of such a case is:

@Test
public void testFarPoint() throws OrekitException {
    AbsoluteDate date = AbsoluteDate.J2000_EPOCH;
    Frame frame = FramesFactory.getITRF2005(true);
    OneAxisEllipsoid model = new OneAxisEllipsoid(90.0, 5.0 / 9.0, frame);
    Vector3D point     = new Vector3D(1.0e15, 2.0e15, -1.0e12);
    GeodeticPoint gp = model.transform(point, frame, date);
    Vector3D rebuilt = model.transform(gp);
    Assert.assertEquals(0.0, rebuilt.distance(point), 1.0e-15 * point.getNorm());
}

(from redmine: issue id 137, created on 2013-05-18, closed on 2013-05-18)