Lunar Gravity: Preliminary Estimates from Lunar Orbiter
- 9 February 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 159 (3815) , 625-627
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.159.3815.625
Abstract
Tracking data fromt the lunar orbiters have been analyzed for information regarding Moon's gravity field. These preliminary results include values of a set of harmonic coefficients throlugh degree 4 in the tesserals and degree 8 in the zonals. Implications regarding Moon's mass distribution are discltssed: one implicationt is that Moon is nearly homogeneous.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- On the motions of the perigee and node and the distribution of mass in the moonThe Astronomical Journal, 1965