Recent orbital evolution and the internal structures of Enceladus and Dione

Icarus

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 597-609

  Zhang, Ke ^a   Nimmo, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Resonances, orbital; Satellites, dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350391991     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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