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Viscoelastic Tides of Mercury and the Determination of its Inner Core Size

Oberst, J.; Stark, A.; Steinbrügge, G. +3 more

We computed interior structure models of Mercury and analyzed their viscoelastic tidal response. The models are consistent with MErcury Surface, Space Environment, GEochemistry, and Ranging mission inferences of mean density, mean moment of inertia, moment of inertia of mantle and crust, and tidal Love number k₂. Based on these constrai…