The free precession and libration of Mercury

Icarus

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-18

  Peale, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mercury; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244439843     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.03.017     Document Type: Article

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