Pluto and Charon: A case of precession-orbit resonance?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 105, Issue E11, 2000, Pages 26745-26755

  Rubincam, David Parry ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORBIT DETERMINATION; PLUTO;

EID: 0034485540     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001273     Document Type: Article

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