Long-term evolution of the spin of Venus. II. Numerical simulations

Icarus

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 24-45

  Correia, Alexandre C M ^a,b   Laskar, Jacques ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Chaos; Obliquity; Resonances; Spin dynamics; Venus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037842858     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00043-5     Document Type: Article

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