Gravity Field of Jupiter from Pioneer 11 Tracking Data

2 May 1975

journal article
other
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 188 (4187) , 476-477
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.188.4187.476

Abstract

Significantly improved values of the zonal gravity harmonic coefficients J₃₉ J₄, and J₆ of Jupiter have been obtained from a preliminary analysis of Pioneer 11 spacecraft Doppler data taken while the spacecraft was near Jupiter. The new results, which will have an important application as boundary conditions for theoretical models of Jupiter's interior. are consistent with a planet in hydrostatic equilibrium.

Keywords

JUPITER
PIONEER
GRAVITY
SPACECRAFT
HYDROSTATIC
THEORETICAL
INTERIOR
HARMONIC
TAKEN
DOPPLER

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Structure of the Jovian envelope from Pioneer 10 gravity data
The Astrophysical Journal, 1974
Gravity results from Pioneer 10 Doppler data
Journal of Geophysical Research, 1974