Mercury's capture into the 3/2 spin-orbit resonance as a result of its chaotic dynamics

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6994, 2004, Pages 848-850

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; PROBABILITY; RESONANCE; TORQUE; VISCOSITY;

CHAOTIC EVOLUTION; SPIN-ORBIT RESONANCE;

ASTRONOMY;

MERCURY (PLANET); PLANETARY ROTATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; EVOLUTION; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION;

EID: 3042575130     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02609     Document Type: Article

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