Lunar degree 2 potential Love number determination from satellite tracking data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Goossens, Sander ^a   Matsumoto, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; LUNAR MISSIONS; SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TRACKING (POSITION);

LUNAR LASER; SATELLITE TRACKING DATA;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

IMAGING METHOD; LUNAR CRUST; PLANETARY SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SPACECRAFT; TRACKING;

CITRUS RETICULATA;

EID: 40849100314     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031960     Document Type: Article

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