Venusian k2 tidal Love number from Magellan and PVO tracking data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1857-1860

  Konopliv, A S ^a   Yoder, C F ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Jet Propulsion Lab ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; FUNCTIONS; GRAVITATION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; IRON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLIDIFICATION; SUN; TIDES; TRACKING (POSITION); ORBITS;

DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; DOPPLER SIGNATURE; DOPPLER TRACKING; LEGENDRE FUNCTIONS; LOVE NUMBER; VENUS CORE;

PLANETS; TRACKING (POSITION);

PLANETARY STRUCTURE; TIDAL DEFORMATION;

VENUS;

BEST ESTIMATES; DOPPLER TRACKING; IRON CORES; LIQUID IRON; LOVE NUMBERS; PIONEER VENUS ORBITERS; SPACECRAFT DATA; TRACKING DATA;

VENUSIA;

EID: 0030185162     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01589     Document Type: Article

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