Titan's rotational state : tttthe effects of a forc"ed f"ree resonant wobble

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 101, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 13-30

  Noyelles, Benoît ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

Author keywords

Natural satellites; Resonance; Rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449090017     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-008-9132-y     Document Type: Article

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