Titan's internal structure inferred from a coupled thermal-orbital model

Icarus

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 496-502

  Tobie, Gabriel ^a,b   Grasset, Olivier ^b   Lunine, Jonathan I ^a   Mocquet, Antoine ^b   Sotin, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Ices; Orbits; Thermal histories; Tides, solid body; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144389816     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.12.007     Document Type: Article

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