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Determination of Some Physical Parameters of the Moon with Lunar Laser Ranging Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jin Wenjing  and
Li Jinling
Jin Wenjing
Affiliation:
Shanghai Observatory Shanghai, P.R., China
Li Jinling
Affiliation:
Shanghai Observatory Shanghai, P.R., China

Abstract

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Information about the structure of lunar interior and evolution could be obtained from measurements of lunar free librations, gravitational field, dissipation etc. In this paper the precision of determining free librations from Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) data are estimated. Using the observing data from four telescopes for eighteen years, the amplitudes and phases of free librations, and ratios of the moments of inertia of the Moon were determined.

Type
Solar System Dynamics
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 165: Dynamics and Astrometry of Natural and Artificial Celestial Bodies , 1997 , pp. 221 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

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