[Proj] triaxial ellipsoid

Charles Karney charles.karney at sri.com
Fri Oct 19 14:42:38 EST 2012


Surely, the Y[3,m] terms won't change the axes since they don't
contribute to the moment of inertia.

On 2012-10-19 15:37, Aleksander Yanovskiy wrote:
> Probably my description was unclear (or wrong?). I just want to add to Y[2,2]  geoid approximation (triaxial ellipsoid) one extra term (3,0) so that the result would be triaxial + pear shaped Earth figure (and then to calculate it's principal axes orientation).

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