A method to determine regional lunar gravity fields from earth-based satellite tracking data

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1331-1340

  Goossens, S ^a,b   Visser, P N A M ^a   Ambrosius, B A C ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gravity anomalies; Lunar gravity field; Regional gravity field determination

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY ANOMALIES; LUNAR GRAVITY FIELD; REGIONAL GRAVITY FIELD DETERMINATION; SHORT-ARC APPROACH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAVITATION; ORBITS; SATELLITES;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 26444512682     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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