Dec 1977
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977georl...4..551t&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 4, Dec. 1977, p. 551-554.
Physics
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Gravitational Constant, Phobos, Calibrating, Ephemerides, Orbit Perturbation, Radio Tracking, Satellite Observation, Viking Orbiter Spacecraft
Scientific paper
Radio tracking data associated with the February 1977 encounters between the Martian satellite Phobos and the Viking Orbiter I spacecraft have been analyzed to determine the gravitational constant of Phobos. A linear error analysis was conducted to determine the selection of data and the parameter solution set which would yield the best estimate of the gravitational constant. This error analysis indicated that the optimal data set was a data arc beginning just prior to the closest encounter and spanning three consecutive spacecraft orbits; data near periapsis were deleted. The most feasible parameter solution set consisted of the Phobos gravitational constant and the spacecraft initial conditions. The result of the data analysis was an estimate of (7.3 plus or minus 0.7) x 10 to the -4th cu km/sq sec for the gravitational constant of Phobos.
Blackshear Thomas W.
Kelly G. M.
Mason Michael L.
Tolson Robert H.
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