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COOK1 has shown that, in the Earth's gravitational potential when developed into a series of zonal spherical harmonics, the coefficients are influenced to the fourth harmonic by the inhomogeneities of the inner core; the inhomogeneities of the outer core will appear at first in the coefficients of n = 5–11.
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EGYED, L. The Satellite Geoid and the Structure of the Earth. Nature 203, 67–69 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203067a0
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