Report of the IAU/IAG Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements of the Planets and Satellites: 2000

Authors

P. Seidelmann, University of Virginia - Charlottesville
V. K. Abalakin, Institute for Theoretical Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia
M. Bursa, Astronomical Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
M. E. Davies, RAND, Santa Monica, CA
C. de Bergh, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
J. H. Lieske, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
J. Oberst, DLR Berlin Adlershof, Berlin, Germany
J. L. Simon, Institute de Mecanique Celeste, Paris, France
E. M. Standish, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
Phil Stooke, The University of Western Ontario
P. C. Thomas, Cornell University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2002

Volume

82

Issue

1

Journal

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

First Page

83

Last Page

111

URL with Digital Object Identifier

http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1013939327465

Abstract

Every three years the IAU/IAG Working Group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements of the planets and satellites revises tables giving the directions of the north poles of rotation and the prime meridians of the planets, satellites, and asteroids. Also presented are revised tables giving their sizes and shapes. Changes since the previous report are summarized in the Appendix.