Mercury Has Two Permanent Thermal Bulges

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Jan 1968

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1968sci...159..306l&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 159, Issue 3812, pp. 306-307

Physics

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If Mercury has been rotating with a period exactly two-thirds of the
period of orbital revolution for at least 60,000 years, there exist two
permanent thermal bulges on opposite sides of Mercury's surface that
alternately face Sun at every perihelion. The bulges increase the
strength of the resonance lock and tend to prevent drifting out.

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