Multi-beam Altimetric Crossovers for the Precision Orbit Determination of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER. E. Mazarico1,G. A. Neumann2, D. D. Rowlands2, F. G. Lemoine2, D. E. Smith2, M.T. Zuber3, 1Oak Ridge Associated Universities at Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Code 698, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, [email protected]; 2Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Code 698, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771; 3Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139.
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