Astronomical School’s Report, 2016, Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 1–6

https://doi.org/10.18372/2411-6602.12.1001
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UDC 528.2

Some results of Moon's gravitational field investigations

Haigel Y.I., Zazulyak P.M.

Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine

Abstract

The task of studying the gravitational field of the moon is important for long-term planning of its research using manned and robotic spacecrafts. Determination of harmonic expansion coefficients of selenopotential may not be reliable because of their construction based on different data and different methods of mathematical processing. With mutual comparative assessment of selenopotential models we can get some information about the reliability determination harmonic coefficients.

Keywords: gravitational field; dispersion; physical libration; moments of inertia

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