RADAR AND SPACECRAFT RANGING TO MERCURY BETWEEN 1966 AND 1988

被引:16
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ANDERSON, JD
SLADE, MA
JURGENS, RF
LAU, EL
NEWHALL, XX
STANDISH, EM
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PROCEEDINGS ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA | 1991年 / 9卷 / 02期
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10.1017/S1323358000024371
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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Improved solutions have been obtained for the orbit and equatorial cross-section of Mercury using radar ranging data spanning 22 years. These data have yielded new results on the precession of Mercury's perihelion and better limits on a possible time variation in the gravitational constant G.
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