Rotation of Europa: Constraints from Terminator and Limb Positions

Icarus

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 341-347

  Hoppa, Gregory ^a   Greenberg, Richard ^a   Geissler, Paul ^a   Tufts, B Randall ^a   Plassmann, J ^a   Durda, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Rotation; Satellites of Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000933346     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6065     Document Type: Article

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