Shapes and gravitational fields of rotating two-layer Maclaurin ellipsoids: Application to planets and satellites

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 187, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 364-379

  Schubert, Gerald ^a   Anderson, John ^b   Zhang, Keke ^c   Kong, D ^c   Helled, Ravit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maclaurin spheroid; Planetary interiors; Planetary shape; Rotational flattening of planets; Theory of figures

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT DENSITY; EXACT SOLUTION; EXPLICIT FORMULA; GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; ICE GIANTS; MACLAURIN SPHEROID; NEPTUNE; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; OUTER LAYER; OUTER PLANETS; PLANETARY INTERIORS; PLANETARY SHAPE; PLANETS AND SATELLITES; RADIAL DENSITY PROFILE; ROTATION PERIOD; ROTATIONAL PARAMETERS; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; THEORY OF FIGURES; THIRD ORDER; TWO LAYER MODEL; TWO LAYERS;

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLANETS; ROTATION;

SATELLITES;

EARTH; ECCENTRICITY; GRAVITY FIELD; MARS; NEPTUNE; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANETARY ROTATION; SPHERE; THEORETICAL STUDY; URANUS;

EID: 80053197302     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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