Local gravity from Lunar Prospector tracking data: Results for Mare Serenitatis

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1127-1132

  Goossens, Sander ^a,b   Visser, P N A M ^a   Heki, K ^c   Ambrosius, B A C ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Local and regional gravity; Lunar gravity; Lunar Prospector; Mare Serenitatis

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY ANOMALY; MOON;

EID: 30044438001     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351893     Document Type: Article

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