NASA Technical Note

NASA Technical Note
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Total Pages: 518
Release: 1970
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Estimates of the Moon's Geometry Using Lunar Orbiter Imagery and Apollo Laser Altimeter Data

Estimates of the Moon's Geometry Using Lunar Orbiter Imagery and Apollo Laser Altimeter Data
Author: Ruben L. Jones
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Total Pages: 68
Release: 1973
Genre: Moon
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Selenographic coordinates for about 6000 lunar points identified on the Lunar Orbiter photographs are tabulated and have been combined with those lunar radii derived from the Apollo 15 laser altimeter data. These coordinates were used to derive that triaxial ellipsoid which best fits the Moon's irregular surface. Fits where obtained for different constraints on both the axial orientations and the displacement of the center of the ellipsoid. The semiaxes for the unconstrained ellipsoid were a = 1737.6 km, b = 1735.6 km, and c = 1735.0 km which correspond to a mean radius of about 1736.1 km. These axes were found to be nearly parallel to the Moon's principal axes of inertia, and the origin was displaced about 2.0 km from the Moon's center of gravity in a direction away from the Earth and to the south of the lunar equator.

NASA Technical Report

NASA Technical Report
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Total Pages: 912
Release: 1972
Genre: Aerodynamics
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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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Total Pages: 574
Release: 1970
Genre: Aeronautics
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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.