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THE external gravitational potential, V, of the Earth at a point having the spherical polar co-ordinates, radius vector r, co-latitude θ and longitude λ, with respect to the centre of mass of the Earth, may be written in the form:
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King-Hele, D. G., Cook, G. E., and Rees, J. M., Nature, 197, 785 (1963).
Cook, A. H. (to be published in Space Sci. Revs.)
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COOK, A. Sources of Harmonics of Low Order in the External Gravity Field of the Earth. Nature 198, 1186 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981186a0
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