Forced obliquities and moments of inertia of Ceres and Vesta

Icarus

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 496-509

  Bills, B G ^a   Nimmo, F ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid Ceres; Asteroid Vesta; Asteroids, Dynamics; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956197448     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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