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Every three years the IAU/IAG/COSPAR Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements of the Planets and Satellites revises tables giving the directions of the north poles of rotation and the prime meridians of the planets and satellites. Also presented are revised tables giving their sizes and shapes.
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Dames, M.E., Abalakin, V.K., Brahic, A. et al. Report of the IAU/IAG/COSPAR working group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements of the planets and satellites: 1991. Celestial Mech Dyn Astr 53, 377–397 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00051818
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