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Fall 2010
As Mercury orbits the Sun, solar induced gravitational torques give rise to a planetary libration. While undergoing this 88 day period libration, the axes of minimum moment of inertia of the mantle and solid core, if present, become misaligned, leading to a gravitational torque which initiates a...
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