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Neptune's upper
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Recherches Spatiales en France: Première rencontre de l'I. F. H. E.. "Des Premières Expériences Scientifiques aux Premiers Satellites". Conference held October 24-25, 2000, in Paris
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Stellmacher: Liaison Nice—Beyrouth a l’aide des observations du Satellite D1A, Bulletin géodésique, Tome 93, Nombre 1, 1969, pp. 235–242
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Méthode numérique de calcul des perturbations générales: application au VIII satellite de
Jupiter, Bulletin Astronomique, Tome 22, 1959, pp. 1–83 (Dissertation)
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Froeschlé: The connection of a catalogue of stars with the extragalactic reference frame, Astronomy and astrophysics, I, vol. 115, 1982, pp. 89–97
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Hipparcos catalogue as a realisation of the extragalactic reference system, Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 323, 1997, pp. 620–633
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Vanishing Universe: Adverse Environmental Impacts on Astronomy; Proceedings of the conference sponsored by Unesco, held at Unesco, Paris, June 30–July 2, 1992
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Kovalevsky, J.; Link, F. (1969). "Diameter, flattening and optical properties of the upper atmosphere of
Neptune as derived from the occultation of BD-17 4388".
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mission to accurately measure the proper motion and parallax of 118,000 stars. He initiated the
European phase of Hipparcos preparation at a meeting in
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Hipparcos astrometric catalogue, Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 304, 1995, pp. 34–43
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with Annick Bec-Borsenberger: Convergence of a literal solution of Lunar theory, in: Natural and Artificial Satellite Motion, 1979, pp. 83–98
192:. Despite declining health, he still worked on the first data from Gaia. He was also involved in the geodesy program of the French satellites D1A
188:(ESA) decided in 1980 to fund the mission in 1980. He was also involved in Gaia (the successor to Hipparcos) as a member of the working group
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data reduction. From 1987 to 1992 he was again CERGA's director. In 1994 he retired as astronomer emeritus.
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Kovalevsky, J. (1973). "Analysis of ISAGEX results and their application in European geodesy".
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