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Reference Surfaces and Global Figure Parameters of the Terrestrial Planetary Bodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

K.K. Kamensky
K.K. Kamensky*
Affiliation:
SKTB of Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics Ul. Lermontova 15 290005 Lvov USSR

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For connecting the inertial coordinate system with the non-inertial planetocentric one we need to know values of the fundamental astronomical constants as well as global figure parameters of the planet. We distinguish among planetary figures a dynamical, a level, and hypsometric figures.

Type
Part 3: Concepts, Definitions, Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 141: Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky , 1990 , pp. 167 - 168
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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