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About mechanical and geometric parameters of the Earth

ISTCGCAP.
2002;
Volume 62, Number 62
: 39-46
Authors:
  1. Alexander N. Marchenko
  2. Nataliya Yarema
1
Department of Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy, Lviv Polytechnic National University
2
Lviv Polytechnic National University

The estimation of gravitational harmonic coefficients of second degree and the coordinates of the Earth’s figure axis was made from the least squares adjustment of recent global Earth gravity models including EIGEN-IS solution coming from CHAMP satellite. The time-independent components (at epoch 1997) of the Earth’s inertial tensor and the time-dependent components of the tensor of inertia were estimated from given information on the secular and periodic variations of harmonic coefficient of second degree and the dynamical ellipticity H D.

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