Mercury's moment of inertia from spin and gravity data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Margot, Jean Luc ^a   Peale, Stanton J ^b   Solomon, Sean C ^c,d   Hauck II, Steven A ^e   Ghigo, Frank D ^f   Jurgens, Raymond F ^g   Yseboodt, Marie ^h   Giorgini, Jon D ^g   Padovan, Sebastiano ^a   Campbell, Donald B ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f National Radio Astronomy Laboratory   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASSINI; GRAVITATIONAL TORQUE; GRAVITY DATA; LONGITUDINAL DISPLACEMENTS; MOMENT OF INERTIA; POLAR MOMENT; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; ROTATION RATE; SPIN PROPERTIES; SPIN STATE; SPIN-AXIS;

GRAVITATION; MERCURY (METAL);

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

ASYMMETRY; DATA SET; GRAVITY FIELD; INERTIA; MERCURY (PLANET); RADAR; SIZE; TORQUE; CORE (PLANETARY); ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

EID: 84868334612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JE004161     Document Type: Article

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