Equilibrium shapes and tidal dissipation factors of Galilean satellites

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Jun 2001

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Progress in Astronomy, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 151 - 155 (2001). In: Proceedings for the First National Academic Conference of the Ch

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Galilean Satellites, Equilibrium Shapes, Tidal Dissipation Factor

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Jupiter's four large moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, are orbiting synchronously, and are all known as Galilean satellites after Galileo Galilei, who discovered them in 1610. NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which reached the Jupiter system in 1995, has deepened our understanding of Galilean satellites in the past few years. In this paper, we use the new geodetic data to construct a series of models for the internal structure of Galilean satellites, and to calculate their parameters of equilibrium shape and the tidal dissipation factors.

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