Authors: Jones D P H, Sinclair A T, and Williams I P
Year: 1989
Title: Secular acceleration of Phobos confirmed from position obtained on La Palma
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume: 237
Number: 1
Pages: 15-19
Keywords: Mars, Phobos, Deimos, theory, analytical, observation, analysis
Abstract: We have measured 332 positions of the satellites of Mars with CCD detectors on the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma between 1988 September 21 and 30. Comparison of the observations with an accurate orbital model shows that the average accuracy of one observation is 0.15 arcsec. The observations have been used, together with all available previous Earth-based and spacecraft observations, to improve the determination of the parameters of the orbital model, and in particular the secular acceleration of Phobos.
%F: Royal Greenwich Observatory. School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary College
Bibliogaphic Code: 1989MNRAS.237P..15J
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