Exterior gravitation of a polyhedron derived and compared with harmonic and mascon gravitation representations of asteroid 4769 Castalia

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 313-344

  Werner, Robert A ^a   Scheeres, Daniel J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid 4769 Castalia; Gravitational potential; Mascon; Polyhedron

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000684989     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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