Note on Mercury's rotation: The four equilibria of the Hamiltonian model

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 253-258

  D'Hoedt, Sandrine ^a   Lemaitre, Anne ^a   Rambaux, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Equilibria; Mercury; Precession; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749366687     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-006-9041-x     Document Type: Article

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