Title of article
Theory of the rotation of the Galilean satellites
Author/Authors
Benoit Noyelles، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
Pages
5
From page
240
To page
244
Abstract
As most of the natural satellites of the Solar System, the Galilean moons are since a long time assumed to be tidally locked in a spin-orbit synchronous resonance. Thanks to the mission Galileo, we now dispose of enough gravity data to perform 3-dimensional theories of the rotation of these satellites, in particular to model the departure from the exact synchronous rotation. We here present such theories depending on the interior model we consider, in highlighting some observable output data. Inverting them will give us information on the internal structure of these bodies.
Keywords
planets and satellites: general
Journal title
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Serial Year
2010
Journal title
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Record number
667647
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