Mixed-model gravity representations for small celestial bodies using mascons and spherical harmonics

DOI10.1007/S10569-019-9904-6MaRDI QIDQ2005632zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Patrick T. Wittick, Ryan P. Russell

Publication date 8 October 2020

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-019-9904-6

zbMATH Keywords

asteroidcometgravity inversiongravity modelgravity potentialleast squaresmasconsmall bodyspherical harmonics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical problems in dynamical systems (65P99) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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• Ellipsoidal harmonic expansions of the gravitational potential: theory and application
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• The equations of relative motion in the orbital reference frame
• Theory of satellite geodesy. Applications of satellites to geodesy.
• Uniform Representation of the Gravitational Potential and its Derivatives

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