Love number

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Lovesche figures (after Augustus Edward Hough Love ) are proportionality factors between the distortion and the autogenous gravitational field of a non-rotating, elastic sphere on the one hand and a causal linear gravity gradient.

Love 's numbers indicate the substantially to the elastic properties of the earth and are required, inter alia, in the calculation of satellite orbits, to calculate path corrections.

• Geodesy
• Space Physics