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Geopotential

Geopotential is the potential of the Earth's gravity field. The gravity vector is obtained as the gradient of this potential. For the purpose of satellite orbital mechanics, the geopotential is typically described by a series expansion into spherical harmonics (spectral[?] representation).

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