Size and compositional constraints of Ganymede's metallic core for driving an active dynamo

Icarus

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 216-224

  Kimura, Jun ^a   Nakagawa, Takashi ^b   Kurita, Kei ^c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ganymede; Interiors; Jupiter; Magnetic fields; satellites; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349137566     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.026     Document Type: Article

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