Recent Gravity Models as a Result of the Lunar Prospector Mission

By A. Konopliv, Sami W. Asmar, E. Carranza, W. Sjogren, D. Yuan. 2001

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Report of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2009 (2011, background): “As indicated above, Konopliv et al. (2006) have developed an improved model for the orientation of Mars.”
Predicting the Earth encounters of (99942) Apophis (2008, background): “We also examined consequences of a spherical harmonic lunar gravity model (LP165P; Konopliv et al., 2001).”
Orbit determination of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2012, methodology): “Following previous work on Lunar Prospector (Konopliv et al. 2001; Mazarico et al. 2010), we used short arcs, with an average duration of 2.”
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Investigation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission (2010, methodology): “…k2 Love number of the Moon, which measures the tidal response of the potential, has been determined from analysis of satellite tracking data (e.g., Konopliv et al. 2001), with k2 = 0.026 ± 0.003 (Goossens and Matsumoto 2008), from a re-analysis of Lunar Prospector (LP) and historical data, found…”
High‒degree gravity models from GRAIL primary mission data (2013, methodology): “The average fits for GRGM660PRIM, SGM150, and LP150Q are 0.82, 3.5, and 4.52 mm/s, respectively.”
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL): Mapping the Lunar Interior from Crust to Core (2013, methodology): “Subsequent U.S. efforts included Lunar Orbiters 1–5, the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE; Clementine) (Zuber et al. 1994; Lemoine et al. 1997) and Lunar Prospector (Konopliv et al. 1998, 2001).”