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Principal moments of inertia and secular love number of Phobos

✍ Scribed by M. Burša

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Weight: 188 KB
Volume: 42
Category: Article
ISSN: 1573-0794
DOI: 10.1007/bf00118039

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✦ Synopsis

A dynamic homogeneous model of Phobos is used: its boundary is an equipotential surface specified by the second zonal and the second sectorial harmonics plus the constant part of the tidal potential due to Mars. The principal moments of inertia, the hydrostatic second zonal harmonic and the secular Love number of Phobos have been estimated. They support the hypothesis that Phobos is formed out of primordial matter by accretion in orbit.

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