Secular Love Numbers and Hydrostatic Equilibrium of Planets
Abstract
The secular Love numbers of planets and of the Moon have been computed by use of the recent satellite data. It has been demonstrated that Venus, Mercury, and the Moon are far from the ideal hydrostatic equilibrium; the angular velocities (rotation periods) which correspond to the hydrostatic equilibrium have been computed.
- Publication:
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Earth Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- October 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00055525
- Bibcode:
- 1984EM&P...31..135B
- Keywords:
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- Gravitational Constant;
- Love Waves;
- Planetary Rotation;
- Secular Variations;
- Angular Velocity;
- Density Wave Model;
- Hydrostatics;
- Mercury;
- Angular Velocity;
- Satellite Data;
- Rotation Period;
- Hydrostatic Equilibrium