Predicted recovery of Mercury's internal structure by MESSENGER

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Hauck II, Steven A ^a   Solomon, Sean C ^b   Smith, Derek A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAVITATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BULK DENSITY; GRAVITY FIELD; MOMENT OF INERTIA; SPIN STATE;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

GRAVITY FIELD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MERCURY (PLANET); MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY SURFACE; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 36549087747     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030793     Document Type: Article

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