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Oct 1973
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Lunar Dynamics and Observational Coordinate Systems, Proceedings of IAU Colloq. 24, held in Houston, TX, 15-17 January, 1973. M
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Satellite geodesy has yielded the locations of more than fifty stations in a single coordinate system referred to the Earth's center of mass with accuracies in the five to ten meter range. The following different methods have been used at Goddard to accomplish this. Dynamical solutions have been obtained for the locations of some fifty key stations using data from the GEOS satellite program. The distribution of observations about the stations is illustrated in terms of the data obtained for a typical station such as the one at Edinburg, Texas. Geopotential coefficients were held fixed in these solutions. The results of these dynamical determinations implied geodetic datum shifts which were then used to arrive at positions for some two hundred additional stations. Another approach involved the adjustment of the coordinates of seventeen stations on the basis of observations of short arcs of GEOS satellite orbits. These results were found to be consistent with those obtained through ground surveys to about five meters rms in each coordinate. Simultaneous solutions for station locations and geopotential coefficients have also yielded values for positions of some sixty stations, again in a coordinate system defined in terms of the Earth's center of mass. Lunar laser ranging and lunar occultation observing programs involve knowledge of the positions of the observing sites. In some cases the lunar observing program itself yields station coordinate information. In other cases greater reliance is placed upon independent determinations of site locations. The location of an occultation observation site at Olifantsfontein, for example, has been obtained in a center-of-mass system in both the dynamical and simultaneous satellite solutions. It is anticipated that a dynamical satellite solution will be extended in 1973 to obtain center-of-mass coordinates for a station in New Zealand. This will make it possible to tie an occultation site in that region to a dynamically determined coordinate system referred to the mass center. Coordinates for stations at Organ Pass, New Mexico, determined in both the dynamical and simultaneous solutions, and Edinburg, Texas, found in both the dynamical and short-arc adjustments, provide the basis for referring the location of a facility such as the McDonald Observatory to a center-of-mass system either through accurate ground surveying techniques or by means of a satellite geodesty tie. The latter approach has already been used, for example, to fix the position of an isolated site on Madagascar relative to a reference point in Africa and, in turn, to a center-of-mass coordinate system. Estimates of the accuracies of the satellite determinations are discussed. Theoretical aspects of coordinate systems associated with the Earth and the Moon are also considered.
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