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astro-ph.EP2017★ 12 cited
Tilting Styx and Nix but not Uranus with a Spin-Precession-Mean-motion resonance
Alice C. Quillen, Yuan-Yuan Chen, Benoit Noyelles +1
A Hamiltonian model is constructed for the spin axis of a planet perturbed by a nearby planet with both planets in orbit about star. We expand the planet-planet gravitational poten…
astro-ph.EP2017★ 31 cited
Obliquity evolution of the minor satellites of Pluto and Charon
Alice C. Quillen, Fiona Nichols-Fleming, Yuan-Yuan Chen +1
New Horizons mission observations show that the small satellites Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra, of the Pluto-Charon system, have not tidally spun-down to near synchronous spin stat…