Non-gravitational effects and LAGEOS' rotation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3079-3082

  Vokrouhlický, David ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TORQUE; RADIATION EFFECTS; SATELLITES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ASYMMETRIC REFLECTIVITY; LASER GEODYNAMICS SATELLITE (LAGEOS); NONGRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; PERTURBING TORQUE; RADIATION TORQUE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; ORBITS;

LAGEOS; SATELLITE ROTATION; SPIN AXIS;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRIC CENTER; ORBIT ANALYSIS; RADIATION TORQUE; SPIN-AXIS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

EID: 0030292077     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03025     Document Type: Article

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