Evidence for a past high-eccentricity lunar orbit

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5787, 2006, Pages 652-655

  Garrick Bethell, Ian ^a   Wisdom, Jack ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOON; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESONANCE;

GRAVITY FIELD; LIBRATION; LUNAR ORBITS;

ORBITS;

ECCENTRICITY; GRAVITY FIELD; INERTIA; MERCURY (PLANET); MOON; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; GRAVITY; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33746889431     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128237     Document Type: Article

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