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Report of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2015
Oberst, J.; A'Hearn, M. F.; Klioner, S. A. +15 more
This report continues the practice where the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements revises recommendations regarding those topics for the planets, satellites, minor planets, and comets approximately every 3 years. The Working Group has now become a "functional working group" of the IAU, and its membership is open to…
Addressing some critical aspects of the BepiColombo MORE relativity experiment
Schettino, Giulia; Serra, Daniele; Tommei, Giacomo +1 more
The Mercury Orbiter Radio science Experiment (MORE) is one of the experiments on-board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, to be launched in October 2018. Thanks to full on-board and on-ground instrumentation performing very precise tracking from the Earth, MORE will have the chance to determine with very high accuracy the Mercury-centric…