Origin of the Moon's orbital inclination from resonant disk interactions

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6771, 2000, Pages 741-743

  Ward, William R ^a   Canup, Robin M ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOON; ORBIT DETERMINATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034677479     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35001516     Document Type: Article

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