de Sitter's Theory Flattens Jupiter
Abstract
A correction to the Galilean satellite ephemerides indicated by the observations of 1973 mutual eclipse and occultation phenomena acts to reduce significantly the discrepancy between the dynamical oblateness of Jupiter measured by spacecraft and the optical oblateness measured by the 1971 β Sco occultations.
- Publication:
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Icarus
- Pub Date:
- February 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0019-1035(77)90165-8
- Bibcode:
- 1977Icar...30..311H
- Keywords:
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- Astrometry;
- Galilean Satellites;
- Jupiter (Planet);
- Oblate Spheroids;
- Planet Ephemerides;
- Axes Of Rotation;
- Io;
- Jupiter Probes;
- Occultation;
- Optical Measurement;
- Planetary Magnetic Fields;
- Planetary Rotation;
- Position Errors;
- Relativity;
- Surface Properties