A solar system survey of forced librations in longitude

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Comstock, Robert L ^a   Bills, Bruce G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Librations; Moments of inertia; Nonresonant; Resonant; Spin states; Synchronous

Indexed keywords

ECCENTRICITY; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PERIODICITY; PLANETARY ROTATION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0347596568     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003je002100     Document Type: Article

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