Subsurface oceans and deep interiors of medium-sized outer planet satellites and large trans-neptunian objects

Icarus

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 258-273

  Hussmann, Hauke ^a   Sohl, Frank ^b   Spohn, Tilman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

general; Interiors; Satellites; solid body; Tides; Trans neptunian objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749334485     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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