[Proj] triaxial ellipsoid

Charles Karney charles.karney at sri.com
Fri Oct 19 14:43:53 EST 2012


On rereading your original question about the (3,m) terms, perhaps
I'm just agreeing with you...?

On 2012-10-19 15:42, Charles Karney wrote:
> 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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