Spin states and climates of eccentric exoplanets

Icarus

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-23

  Dobrovolskis, Anthony R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Extrasolar planets; Resonances, spin orbit; Rotational dynamics; Tides, solid body

Indexed keywords

EID: 36048994002     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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