Gravity and tectonic patterns of Mercury: Effect of tidal deformation, spin-orbit resonance, nonzero eccentricity, despinning, and reorientation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Matsuyama, I ^a,b   Nimmo, F ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ECCENTRICITY; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MERCURY (PLANET); PLANETARY ROTATION; RESONANCE; TECTONICS;

EID: 64949096180     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JE003252     Document Type: Article

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