Love number
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love-number-166-5349621
title:
Love number
text:
The Love numbers are dimensionless parameters that measure the rigidity of a planetary body or other gravitating object, and the susceptibility of its shape to change in response to an external tidal potential. In 1909, Augustus Edward Hough Love introduced the values h and k which characterize the overall elastic response of the Earth to the tides—Earth tides or body tides. Later, in 1912, Toshi Shida added a third Love number, l, which was needed to obtain a complete overall description of the
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Parameters describing a planet's rigidity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_number
date created:
2009-11-20T04:18:54Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:41:50Z
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