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Some features of rotational motion of Titan caused by the third harmonic of its gravitational potential

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Barkin, 2011, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2011, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 185–187.

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Barkin, Y.V. Some features of rotational motion of Titan caused by the third harmonic of its gravitational potential. Cosmic Res 49, 179–181 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952511020018

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