A Mercury orientation model including non-zero obliquity and librations

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-336

  Margot, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity; Mercury; Planets rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449518189     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-009-9234-1     Document Type: Article

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