Tidal-Rotational Dynamics of Solar System Worlds, From the Moon to Pluto

• Main Author: Keane, James Tuttle
• Other Authors: Matsuyama, Isamu, Malhotra, Renu, Hubbard, William B., Byrne, Shane, Richardson, Randall M.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Arizona. 2017
• Subjects: Moon; Pluto; Reorientation; Rotational Dynamics; Sputnik Planitia; True Polar Wander; Aitken; South Pole; Sputnik; Venus; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625474

The spins of planetary bodies are not stagnant; they evolve in response to both external and internal forces. One way a planet's spin can change is through true polar wander. True polar wander is the reorientation of a planetary body with respect to its angular momentum vector, and occurs when...