Earth albedo and the orbit of Lageos

DOI10.1007/BF01231110MaRDI QIDQ3751074zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David Parry Rubincam, Nelson R. Weiss

Publication date 1986

Published in Celestial Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01231110

zbMATH Keywords

analytical formalismEarth's albedoLageos' orbital semimajor axisLambert's lawlong-period perturbationsorbit of Lageos satellitepolynomial expansionSpecular refletionspherical harmonicszonal albedo

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55)

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