The Rotation of the Planet Mercury

Details The Rotation of the Planet Mercury The Rotation of the Planet Mercury

Nov 1965

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SAO Special Report #188R (1965)

Physics

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Reliable radar observations and some of the generally unreliable optical observations of Mercury are shown to be consistent with its rotating in a direct fashion with a period just two-thirds of its orbital period. This possibility may be understood as a consequence of the combined solar torques exerted on tidal deformations and on a permanent asymmetry in Mercury's equatorial plane, as suggested by Colombo. A simple model illustrating this superharmonic resonance phenomenon is developed in some detail; several alternative paths by which Mercury could have reached its present state of motion are discussed briefly.

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