Rhea's gravitational field and interior structure inferred from archival data files of the 2005 Cassini flyby

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 176-182

  Anderson, John D ^a   Schubert, Gerald ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Data reduction techniques; Orbit determination; Radio observations; Satellites composition; Saturn satellites

Indexed keywords

CELESTIAL MECHANICS; ORBIT DETERMINATION; RADIO OBSERVATION; RADIO OBSERVATIONS; SATURN SATELLITE;

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MECHANICS; STATISTICS;

SATELLITES;

DATA INTERPRETATION; GRAVITY FIELD; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SATELLITE; PLANETARY SURFACE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATURN;

RHEA;

EID: 74449084252     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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