The gravitational signature of the Moon was determined from velocity perturbations of the Lunar Prospector (LP) spacecraft as measured from the Doppler shift of the S-band radio tracking.

 
Citation Konopliv, A. S., LP LUNAR GRAVITY V1.0, LP-L-RSS-5-GRAVITY-V1.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 1999
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Data Set Abstract The gravitational signature of the Moon was determined from velocity perturbations of the Lunar Prospector (LP) spacecraft as measured from the Doppler shift of the S-band radio tracking signal. LP was tracked by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) at Goldstone, California, Canberra, Australia, and Madrid, Spain. The tracking data were used to determine the LP orbit about the Moon, as well as the lunar gravity field [KONOPLIVETAL1998].
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    Mission Information LUNAR PROSPECTOR
    Data Set Information LP-L-RSS-5-GRAVITY-V1.0
    Instrument Host Information LP
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    Target Information MOON