Mercury's capture into the 3/2 spin-orbit resonance including the effect of core-mantle friction

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Correia, Alexandre C M ^a,b   Laskar, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

interior; Mercury; Resonances; Rotational dynamics; solid body; spin orbit; Tides

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749129583     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.034     Document Type: Article

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