Masses of the Main Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt from the Motions of Planets and Spacecraft
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- 1 August 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Astronomy Letters
- Vol. 44 (8-9) , 554-566
Abstract
Dynamicalmass estimates for the main asteroid belt and the trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt have been found from their gravitational influence on the motion of planets. Discrete rotating models consisting...Keywords
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