The influence of reactive torques on comet nucleus rotation

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 249-275

  Neishtadt, A I ^a   Scheeres, D J ^b   Sidorenko, V V ^c   Stooke, P J ^d   Vasiliev, A A ^a  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c KELDYSH INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comet nucleus; Non gravitational perturbations; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038124487     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024217631576     Document Type: Article

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