Does Venus wobble

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Oct 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979apj...233l..33y&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters to the Editor, vol. 233, Oct. 1, 1979, p. L33-L37.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Free Vibration, Planetology, Venus (Planet), Dissipation, Hydrostatics, Planetary Cores, Planetary Quakes, Planetary Rotation, Polar Wandering (Geology), Solar Gravitation, Vibration Damping, Vibration Measurement, Venus, Tides, Interior, Radar Profiling, Rotation, Seismicity

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The free wobble damping time for Venus due to solar tides and rotational flexing is found to be approximately 700,000 times Qomega years, where Qomega is the dissipation function associated with the wobble frequency. The slow spin and expected small (nonhydrostatic) J2 predict a very long wobble period of about 100,000 years. As a result, a simple scaling of the earth's Chandler wobble excitation rate to that of Venus suggests that an appreciable wobble could exist. Detection (or lack thereof) of a free wobble may thus place constraints on the dynamic activity (e.g., mantle convection, Venusquakes, etc.) of the Venus interior.

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