Recent gravity models as a result of the Lunar Prospector mission

Icarus

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-18

  Konopliv, A S ^a   Asmar, S W ^a   Carranza, E ^a   Sjogren, W L ^a   Yuan, D N ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler; Gravity; Lunar; Spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002052735     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6573     Document Type: Article

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