Browsing Open Access Repositories by Subject "planet"
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On turbulence driven by axial precession and tidal evolution of the spin–orbit angle of close-in giant planets
(Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016-05-16)The spin axis of a rotationally deformed planet is forced to precess about its orbital angular momentum vector, due to the tidal gravity of its host star, if these directions are misaligned. This induces internal fluid ...