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    slightly back and forth. In physics and chemistry, a molecule (or other group of atoms) can undergo libration if it is subject to external forces or constraints...
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    the visible spectrum results in the pale blue color of water. The water molecule, in the gaseous state, has three types of transition that can give rise...
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    (9 March 2016). "A numerical investigation of coorbital stability and libration in three dimensions". Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 125...
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    that at some point it was in a 1:4 forced secondary spin–orbit libration. This libration could have provided Enceladus with an additional heat source....
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    of the lunar surface is visible due to cyclical shifts in perspective (libration), making parts of the far side of the Moon visible. The Moon has been...
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  • balance, scales deliberate, deliberation, deliberative, equilibrium, libration lignum lign- wood ligneous, ligniform, lignin, lignite, lignose limbus...
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    P. C.; Tajeddine, R.; et al. (2016). "Enceladus's measured physical libration requires a global subsurface ocean". Icarus. 264: 37–47. arXiv:1509.07555...
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    alternating gain and loss of rotation over a revolution would have caused a libration of 23.65° in longitude. For the same reason, there are two points on Mercury's...
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  • the Lagrange points /ləˈɡrɑːndʒ/ (also Lagrangian points, L-points, or libration points) are points near two large orbiting bodies. Normally, the two objects...
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  • optimized to obtain the clearest observations of Io's induced magnetic field, libration amplitude, and gravity field. Erupting volcanoes will be observed in sunlight...
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    slightly around a central point in the Moon's sky, because of monthly libration. Therefore rising or setting of Earth at the horizon on the Moon occurs...
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    Space Telescope at Wikimedia Commons Collier Trophy – to JWST in 2023 Libration point orbit – Quasiperiodic orbit around a Lagrange point List of deep...
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    techniques to detect inner oceans include magnetic induction, geodesy, librations, axial tilt, tidal response, radar sounding, compositional evidence, and...
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  • satellites. Laniakea Supercluster late-type star See early-type star. libration A slight oscillating motion of the Moon as seen from the Earth, a result...
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    gravitational and imaging data from Cassini were used to analyze the librations of Enceladus' orbit and determined that the moon's surface is not rigidly...
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    Galileo Galilei is sometimes credited with the discovery of the lunar libration in latitude, although Thomas Harriot or William Gilbert might have done...
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    current can continually add energy to the libration motions. This effect then has a chance to cause the libration amplitudes to grow and eventually cause...
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  • machine work was Kawamoto Industry Corporation. The architecture and libration engineering experimental building has a gross floor area of 640,000 square...
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    the creators of the calculus of variations and discovered the points of libration in a planetary orbit, now called Lagrangian Points, by studying the astronomic...
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    internal ocean and ice shell constrained from Cassini gravity, shape, and libration data". Geophysical Research Letters. 43 (11): 5653–5660. Bibcode:2016GeoRL...
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    documenting the appearance of these features under the same illumination and libration conditions, it is possible to judge whether some reports were simply due...
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  • has an ocean 100 kilometers below the surface. Anomalies in the orbital libration of Saturn's moon Mimas combined with models of tidal mechanics led scientists...
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