Gravity field, shape and moment of inertia of titan

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5971, 2010, Pages 1367-1369

  Iess, Luciano ^a   Rappaport, Nicole J ^b   Jacobson, Robert A ^b   Racioppa, Paolo ^a   Stevenson, David J ^c   Tortora, Paolo ^d   Armstrong, John W ^b   Asmar, Sami W ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Bologna   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

GRAVITY FIELD; PLANETARY SURFACE; SILICATE; SPACECRAFT; TITAN; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; ROTATION; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; TIDE;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GRAVITATION; ICE; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; WATER;

EID: 77949416423     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1182583     Document Type: Article

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