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Gerhard Kruizinga
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 39
Citations - 1612
Gerhard Kruizinga is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Orbit determination. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 38 publications receiving 1209 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerhard Kruizinga include Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Gravity field of the Moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.
Maria T. Zuber,David E. Smith,Michael Watkins,Sami W. Asmar,Alexander S. Konopliv,Frank G. Lemoine,H. Jay Melosh,Gregory A. Neumann,Roger J. Phillips,Sean C. Solomon,Sean C. Solomon,Mark A. Wieczorek,James G. Williams,Sander Goossens,Gerhard Kruizinga,Erwan Mazarico,Ryan S. Park,Dah-Ning Yuan +17 more
TL;DR: The Moon's gravity field reveals that impacts have homogenized the density of the crust and fractured it extensively, and GRAIL elucidates the role of impact bombardment in homogenizing the distribution of shallow density anomalies on terrestrial planetary bodies.
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Extending the Global Mass Change Data Record: GRACE Follow-On Instrument and Science Data Performance
Felix W. Landerer,Frank Flechtner,Frank Flechtner,Himanshu Save,Frank Webb,Tamara Bandikova,William I. Bertiger,Srinivas Bettadpur,Sung Hun Byun,Christoph Dahle,Henryk Dobslaw,E. Fahnestock,Nate Harvey,Zhigui Kang,Gerhard Kruizinga,Bryant D. Loomis,Christopher McCullough,M. Murböck,M. Murböck,Peter Nagel,Meegyeong Paik,Nadege Pie,S. R. Poole,Dmitry Strekalov,Mark E. Tamisiea,Furun Wang,Michael M. Watkins,Hui-Ying Wen,David N. Wiese,Dah-Ning Yuan +29 more
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The JPL lunar gravity field to spherical harmonic degree 660 from the GRAIL Primary Mission
Alex S. Konopliv,Ryan S. Park,Dah-Ning Yuan,Sami W. Asmar,Michael M. Watkins,James G. Williams,E. Fahnestock,Gerhard Kruizinga,Meegyeong Paik,Dmitry Strekalov,Nate Harvey,David E. Smith,Maria T. Zuber +12 more
TL;DR: The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission as mentioned in this paper improved the gravity spectrum by up to 4 orders of magnitude for the entire Moon and for more than 5 orders of magnitude over some spectral ranges by using interspacecraft measurements with near 0.03 μm/s accuracy.
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Initial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt object
S. A. Stern,Harold A. Weaver,J. R. Spencer,Catherine B. Olkin,G. R. Gladstone,William M. Grundy,J. M. Moore,Dale P. Cruikshank,H. A. Elliott,H. A. Elliott,William B. McKinnon,J. Wm. Parker,A. J. Verbiscer,Leslie A. Young,D. A. Aguilar,J. M. Albers,Tom Andert,J. Andrews,Fran Bagenal,Maria E. Banks,Brian Bauer,Jeremy Bauman,K. E. Bechtold,Chloe B. Beddingfield,Chloe B. Beddingfield,N. Behrooz,K. B. Beisser,Susan D. Benecchi,E. Bernardoni,Ross A. Beyer,Ross A. Beyer,S. Bhaskaran,Carver J. Bierson,R. P. Binzel,Emma Birath,Michael K. Bird,Michael K. Bird,D. R. Boone,Alice Bowman,Veronica J. Bray,Daniel T. Britt,L. E. Brown,Matthew R. Buckley,Marc W. Buie,B. J. Buratti,L. M. Burke,Stewart Bushman,Brian Carcich,Brian Carcich,A. L. Chaikin,C. L. Chavez,C. L. Chavez,Andrew F. Cheng,E. J. Colwell,Steven J. Conard,M. P. Conner,C. A. Conrad,Jason C. Cook,S. B. Cooper,O. S. Custodio,C. M. Dalle Ore,C. M. Dalle Ore,C. C. Deboy,P. Dharmavaram,Rajani D. Dhingra,G. Dunn,Alissa M. Earle,Anthony F. Egan,J. Eisig,Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry,C. Engelbrecht,B. L. Enke,Carl J. Ercol,E. D. Fattig,Chelsea L. Ferrell,Tiffany J. Finley,J. Firer,J. Fischetti,William M. Folkner,M. N. Fosbury,Glen H. Fountain,J. M. Freeze,L. Gabasova,Lori S. Glaze,James L. Green,G. A. Griffith,Yanping Guo,Matthias Hahn,D. W. Hals,Douglas P. Hamilton,Sarah A. Hamilton,Jennifer Hanley,A. Harch,K. A. Harmon,H. M. Hart,John Hayes,Chris B. Hersman,Matthew E. Hill,T. A. Hill,Jason D. Hofgartner,Mark E. Holdridge,Mihaly Horanyi,A. Hosadurga,Alan D. Howard,Carly Howett,S. E. Jaskulek,D. E. Jennings,J. R. Jensen,Matthew Jones,H. K. Kang,D. J. Katz,David E. Kaufmann,Jj Kavelaars,James Tuttle Keane,G. P. Keleher,M. J. Kinczyk,M. C. Kochte,Peter Kollmann,Stamatios M. Krimigis,Gerhard Kruizinga,David Y. Kusnierkiewicz,M. S. Lahr,Tod R. Lauer,G. B. Lawrence,J. E. Lee,E. J. Lessac-Chenen,Ivan Linscott,Carey M. Lisse,Allen W. Lunsford,D. M. Mages,V. A. Mallder,Nicole Martin,B. H. May,David J. McComas,David J. McComas,Ralph L. McNutt,Douglas S. Mehoke,Thomas Mehoke,Derek S. Nelson,Hai Nguyen,Jorge I. Nunez,A. C. Ocampo,William M. Owen,G. K. Oxton,Alex Parker,Martin Pätzold,J. Y. Pelgrift,Frederic Pelletier,Jon Pineau,M. R. Piquette,Simon B. Porter,Silvia Protopapa,Eric Quirico,Jillian Redfern,A. L. Regiec,Harold J. Reitsema,D. C. Reuter,Derek C. Richardson,J. E. Riedel,M. A. Ritterbush,Stuart J. Robbins,D. J. Rodgers,Gabe Rogers,Debi Rose,Paul E. Rosendall,Kirby Runyon,M. G. Ryschkewitsch,M. M. Saina,M. J. Salinas,Paul M. Schenk,John Scherrer,W. R. Schlei,Bernard Schmitt,D. J. Schultz,D. C. Schurr,Francesca Scipioni,Francesca Scipioni,Rebecca Sepan,R. G. Shelton,Mark R. Showalter,M. Simon,Kelsi N. Singer,E. W. Stahlheber,Dale Stanbridge,John Stansberry,Andrew J. Steffl,Darrell F. Strobel,M. M. Stothoff,T. Stryk,J. R. Stuart,Michael E. Summers,M. B. Tapley,A. Taylor,H. W. Taylor,R. M. Tedford,Henry B. Throop,L. S. Turner,Orkan M. Umurhan,Orkan M. Umurhan,J. Van Eck,D. Velez,M. H. Versteeg,Michael Vincent,R. W. Webbert,S. Weidner,G. Weigle,J. R. Wendel,Oliver L. White,Oliver L. White,Karl Whittenburg,B. G. Williams,Kaj E. Williams,S. P. Williams,H. L. Winters,Amanda M. Zangari,T. H. Zurbuchen +215 more
TL;DR: Stern et al. as mentioned in this paper presented the initial results from the New Horizons flyby of MU_(69) on 1 January 2019, which consists of two lobes that appear to have merged at low speed, producing a contact binary.
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High-resolution lunar gravity fields from the GRAIL Primary and Extended Missions
Alex S. Konopliv,Ryan S. Park,Dah-Ning Yuan,Sami W. Asmar,Michael M. Watkins,James G. Williams,E. Fahnestock,Gerhard Kruizinga,Meegyeong Paik,Dmitry Strekalov,Nate Harvey,David E. Smith,Maria T. Zuber +12 more
TL;DR: The resolution and accuracy of the lunar spherical harmonic gravity field have been dramatically improved as a result of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission as mentioned in this paper, with an average surface resolution n'='870 and the Bouguer spectrum extended to n' ='550.