Obliquity variations of a moonless Earth

Icarus

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-87

  Lissauer, Jack J ^a   Barnes, Jason W ^a,b   Chambers, John E ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Earth; Extrasolar planets; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255129076     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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