Stanton J. Peale: Deciphering the motions of planets and moons
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Stanton J. Peale: Deciphering the motions of planets and moons.
Planetary science lost one of its most highly respected members with the recent passing of Prof. Stanton (Stan) Peale. At last December’s American Geophysical Union meeting, Stan presented a talk on effects of the ellipsoidal shape of Mercury’s solid inner core on the tilt of the planet’s spin axis, but he was not feeling well. He was later diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia that proved res...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512536112