Planetary perturbations on Mercury's libration in longitude

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 101, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 141-157

  Dufey, Julien ^a   Lemaître, Anne ^a   Rambaux, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mercury rotation; Mercury's libration; Planetary perturbations

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449097826     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-008-9143-8     Document Type: Article

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