Mutual gravitational potential and torque of solid bodies via inertia integrals

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-159

  Ashenberg, Joshua ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Inertia integrals; Mutual gravitational potential; Mutual gravitational torque

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848908942     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-007-9092-7     Document Type: Article

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