Librations of the Galilean satellites: The influence of global internal liquid layers

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 651-664

  Baland, Rose Marie ^a,b   Van Hoolst, Tim ^a  

^a ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ices; Interiors; Jupiter, Satellites; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956278099     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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