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A method for modelling the surface of irregular celestial bodies

โœ Scribed by H.-J. Wiebicke


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
893 KB
Volume
310
Category
Article
ISSN
0004-6337

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โœฆ Synopsis


Die Funktion R(9, cp) der Oberflache von unregelmaDigen Himmelskorpern (kleine Monde wie Phobos und Deimos, Kometenkerne oder kleine Asteroidn) wird nach Kugelfunktionen entwickelt. Es wird eine Methode angegeben, nach der die Entwicklungskoeffuienten durch Vergleich der berechneten Konturen mit den Konturen bestimmt werden, die aus einer Folge von Abbildungen des Korpers gewonnen wurden. Bei gegebenen Entwicklungskoeffizienten kann diese Methode fur Orientierungssysteme von Raumschiffen h i m Anflug auf den Himmelskorper verwendet werden. Weiterhin konnen physikalix he G r o k n , wie das Volumen, die Schwerpunktskoordinaten, Tragheitsmomente und Gravitationsfeld analytisch berechnet werden. Unter der Voraussetzung, daD das Gravitationspotential experimentell bestimmt werden kann, wird eine Methode zur Berechnung des radialen Dichteprofiles des Korpers beschrieben.

The surface function R(9, cp) of irregular celestial bodies (small satellites like Phobos and Deimos, cometary nuclei or small asteroids) is expanded in terms of spherical harmonics. A method is given to determine the expansion coefficients by comparing the calculated contours with the contours extracted from a series of images of the body. With given expansion coefficients this method can be applied to orientation systems of the spacecrafi approaching the body. Furthermore, physical quantities like volume, centre-of-mass coordinates. moments of inertia and the gravitational field of the body can be calculated analytically. Under the assumption that the gravitational potential can be determined experimentally a method is described to calculate the radial mass density profile of the body.


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