A primordial origin for misalignments between stellar spin axes and planetary orbits

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7424, 2012, Pages 418-420

  Batygin, Konstantin ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; JUPITER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOLUTION; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE;

EID: 84869069213     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11560     Document Type: Article

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