A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT DETERMINATIONS OF J SUB NM.

Abstract

J sub nm's are coefficients of the expansion of the earth's gravitational potential in spherical harmonics. This report compiles a list of the different determinations of these coefficients in order to determine how much agreement there is between different investigators, and also to see how broad a coverage of the earth was contained in the satellite data which was used. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 06, 1964
Accession Number
AD0601021

Entities

People

  • N. W. Albright

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Coefficients
  • Functions (Mathematics)
  • Harmonics
  • Mathematics
  • Spherical Harmonics

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris