| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1768056 | Advances in Space Research | 2009 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Our main results are a prediction of the short-period perturbations that should be detected in the longitudinal rotational motion of Mercury, and an easy method to define an instantaneous Laplace plane taking into account the very small precession of Mercury's orbit. This plane is afterward chosen as constant reference plane. An estimation of the (small) error induced by this choice is also computed.
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Authors
Sandrine D'Hoedt, Benoît Noyelles, Julien Dufey, Anne Lemaitre,