Did tidal deformation power the core dynamo of Mars?

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-43

  Arkani Hamed, Jafar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asteroids; dynamics; Mars; Orbit determination; Resonances; Rotational dynamics; spin orbit

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749107848     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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