Mar 1973
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973moon....8...25s&link_type=abstract
The Moon, Volume 8, Issue 1-2, pp. 25-32
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Global tracking coverage of the Apollo 15 subsatellite has provided gravity measurements from 50 km altitudes over the entire Humorum basin. An estimate of surface mass points at 2 degree intervals, which best fit the data reveals a mass distribution having a lesser mass excess for the very central area. When two different profiles were fit using a 2 disk model it was again found for each profile that the smaller central disk decreased the central mass by approximately 30%. The mass distribution per unit area however for the major portion of the mascon is still consistent with the other mascons (Crisium, Nectaris and Serenitatis) of approximately 800-900 kg cm-2. The surface mass point solution seems to correlate somewhat with the dark areas on Whitaker's IR-UV map.
Sjogren William L.
Wollenhaupt W. R.
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