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VLBI for better gravimetry in SELENE

Noda, H.; Tamura, Y.; Tsuruta, S. +17 more

The Japanese lunar explorer SELENE (SElenological and Engineering Explorer), to be launched in 2007, will for the first time utilize VLBI observations in lunar gravimetry investigations. This will particularly improve the accuracy to which the low degree gravitational harmonics and the gravity field near the limb can be measured, and when combined…