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On the Determination of Planetary Masses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

P. Herget
P. Herget*
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati Observatory, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.

Abstract

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A common method of determining the mass of a planet is to solve for the orbit of some other object several times with different trial values for the mass in question. It is pointed out that a parabola fitted to the values of the sums of the squares of the residuals may be used to obtain, not only the planetary mass, but also its probable error. Marsden's determination of the mass of Saturn from observations of Hidalgo is used as an example.

Type
Part III/Motions of the Short-Period Comets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 45: The Motion, Evolution of Orbits and Origin of Comets , 1972 , pp. 244 - 245
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1972 

References

Marsden, B. G.: 1972, this Symposium, p. 239.Google Scholar