Farside gravity field of the moon from four-way Doppler measurements of SELENE (Kaguya)

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5916, 2009, Pages 900-905

  Namiki, Noriyuki ^a   Iwata, Takahiro ^b   Matsumoto, Koji ^c   Hanada, Hideo ^c   Noda, Hirotomo ^c   Goossens, Sander ^c   Ogawa, Mina ^d   Kawano, Nobuyuki ^c   Asari, Kazuyoshi ^c   Tsuruta, Sei Itsu ^c   Ishihara, Yoshiaki ^c   Liu, Qinghui ^c   Kikuchi, Fuyuhiko ^c   Ishikawa, Toshiaki ^c   Sasaki, Sho ^c   Aoshima, Chiaki ^e   Kurosawa, Kosuke ^f   Sugita, Seiji ^f   Takano, Tadashi ^g  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; GRAVITY FIELD; MOON;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY; LITHOSPHERE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 60149103305     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168029     Document Type: Article

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