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A programme of photographic observations of the satellites of Saturn, and the method of reduction and analysis are described. The observations have been used to update existing theories of Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Titan. A new theory of the motion of Iapetus has been fitted to the observations.
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© 1978 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Sinclair, A.T. (1978). Improvement of Orbits of Satellites of Saturn using Photographic Observations. In: Szebehely, V. (eds) Dynamics of Planets and Satellites and Theories of Their Motion. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9809-4_27
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