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Official website of NASA about MESSENGER probe : http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
Official website of ESA about BepiColombo : http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=30
Ensemble des présentations réalisées par l'Observatoire Royale de Belgique sur l'expérience MORE : http://copernico.dm.unipi.it/MORE/
"The librations of Mercury" : presentation of the research of the ROB about librations : homepage.oma.be/fnrsaa/pdffiles/yseboodt.ppt

Articles


PDFsmall (1K) "Coupled rotational motion of Mercury" :
A. Lemaître, S. D'Hoedt, N. Rambaux,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 470, Issue 2, August I 2007, pp.741-747, 08/2007

"The BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA): Concept and baseline design" :
Thomas N., Spohn T., Barriot J.-P., Benz W., Beutler G., Christensen U., Dehant V., Fallnich C., Giardini D., Groussin O., Gunderson K., Hauber E., Hilchenbach M., Iess L., Lamy P., Lara L.-M., Lognonné P., Lopez-Moreno J. J., Michaelis H., Oberst J., Resendes D., Reynaud J.-L., Rodrigo R., Sasaki S., Seiferlin K., Wieczorek M., Whitby J. ,
Planetary and Space Science, Volume 55, Issue 10, p. 1398-1413, 07/2007

PDFsmall (1K) "Inertial core-mantle coupling and libration of Mercury" :
N. Rambaux, V. Dehant, T. Van Hoolst, E. Bois,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 468, Issue 2, June III 2007, pp.711-719, 06/2007 .

PDFsmall (1K) "Long-period forcing of Mercury's libration in longitude". :
M. Yseboodt, S. J. Peale, J.L. Margot,
Icarus, Volume 187, Issue 2, p. 365-373, 04/2007

"Note on Mercury's rotation: the four equilibria of the Hamiltonian model". :
A. Lemaître, S. D'Hoedt and N. Rambaux,
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 96, Issue 3-4, pp. 253-258, 11/2006

"The 3:2 spin-orbit resonant motion of Mercury" :
A. Lemaître, S. D'Hoedt and N. Rambaux,
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 95, Issue 1-4, pp. 213-224, 05/2006

"Evolution of Mercury's obliquity" :
M. Yseboodt, J.L. Margot,
Icarus, Volume 181, Issue 2, p. 327-337, 04/2006

PDFsmall (1K) "Theory of the Mercury's spin-orbit motion and analysis of its main librations" . :
N. Rambaux, Bois E.,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.413, p.381-393, 2004

PDFsmall (1K) "Mercury's tides and interior structure". :
T. Van Hoolst, C. Jacobs,
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 108, Issue E11, pp. 7-1, CiteID 5121, DOI 10.1029/2003JE002126, 2003

"Mercure : the planet and its orbit" :
A. Balogh and G. Giampieri,
Institute of Physics Publishing, pp. 529-560, 2002

"Generalized Cassini's Laws" :
Stanton J. Peale,
The astronomical Journal, Vol. 74, number 3, APRIL 1969, pp. 483-489, 04/1969

"Cassini's Second and Trid Laws" :
G. Colombo,
The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 71, number 9, NOVEMBER 1966, pp.891-896, 11/1966


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