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Science 9 February 1968:
Vol. 159. no. 3815, pp. 625 - 627
DOI: 10.1126/science.159.3815.625
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Lunar Gravity: Preliminary Estimates from Lunar Orbiter

J. Lorell 1 and W. L. Sjogren 1

1 Systems Analysis Research Section, Systems Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

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.


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