New analysis of Lunar Prospector radio tracking data brings the nearside gravity field of the Moon with an unprecedented resolution

Icarus

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 455-459

  Han, Shin Chan ^a,b   Mazarico, Erwan ^a   Rowlands, David ^a   Lemoine, Frank ^a   Goossens, Sander ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Geophysics; Moon, surface; Radio observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052532063     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.07.020     Document Type: Article

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