Editing Mercury (planet) (section)

== References ==
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<ref name=Ritzel>{{cite news |last=Ritzel |first=Rebecca |title=Ballet isn't rocket science, but the two aren't mutually exclusive, either |newspaper=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C., United States |date=December 20, 2012 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/ballet-isnt-rocket-science-but-the-twoarentmutually-exclusive-either/2012/12/20/83fae9d6-3e2b-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html |access-date=December 22, 2012 |archive-date=December 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121223125341/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/ballet-isnt-rocket-science-but-the-twoarentmutually-exclusive-either/2012/12/20/83fae9d6-3e2b-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="horizons">{{cite web |date=April 7, 2008 |first=Donald K. |last=Yeomans |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons_batch.cgi?batch=1&COMMAND=%271%27&TABLE_TYPE=%27ELEMENTS%27&START_TIME=%272000-01-01%27&STOP_TIME=%272000-01-02%27&STEP_SIZE=%27200%20years%27&CENTER=%27@Sun%27&OUT_UNITS=%27AU-D%27 |title=HORIZONS Web-Interface for Mercury Major Body |publisher=[[JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System]] |access-date=April 7, 2008 |archive-date=August 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818120425/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons_batch.cgi?batch=1&COMMAND=%271%27&TABLE_TYPE=%27ELEMENTS%27&START_TIME=%272000-01-01%27&STOP_TIME=%272000-01-02%27&STEP_SIZE=%27200%20years%27&CENTER=%27%40Sun%27&OUT_UNITS=%27AU-D%27 |url-status=live }} – Select "Ephemeris Type: Orbital Elements", "Time Span: 2000-01-01 12:00 to 2000-01-02". ("Target Body: Mercury" and "Center: Sun" should be defaulted to.) Results are instantaneous [[osculating orbit|osculating]] values at the precise [[J2000]] epoch.</ref>

<ref name=Souami_Souchay_2012>{{cite journal
 | title=The solar system's invariable plane
 | last1=Souami | first1=D. | last2=Souchay | first2=J.
 | journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics
 | volume=543 | id=A133 | pages=11 | date=July 2012
 | doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201219011 | bibcode=2012A&A...543A.133S | doi-access=free }}</ref>

<ref name="nasa">{{cite web |date=February 15, 2021 |first1=Phillips |last1=Davis |last2=Barnett |first2=Amanda |url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/ |title=Mercury |website=Solar System Exploration |publisher=NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |access-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418111218/https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Seidelmann2007">{{cite journal| doi = 10.1007/s10569-007-9072-y| last1 = Seidelmann| first1 = P. Kenneth| last2 = Archinal| first2 = Brent A.| last3 = A'Hearn<!-- written A'hearn here, mostly A'Hearn elsewhere -->| first3 = Michael F.| display-authors = 3| last4 = Conrad| first4 = Albert R.| last5 = Consolmagno| first5 = Guy J.| last6 = Hestroffer| first6 = Daniel| last7 = Hilton| first7 = James L.| last8 = Krasinsky| first8 = Georgij A.| last9 = Neumann| first9 = Gregory A.| last10=Oberst | first10=Jürgen | last11=Stooke | first11=Philip J. | last12=Tedesco | first12=Edward F. | last13=Tholen | first13=David J. | last14=Thomas | first14=Peter C. | last15=Williams | first15=Iwan P. | year = 2007| title = Report of the IAU/IAG Working Group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements: 2006| journal = Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy| volume = 98| issue = 3| pages = 155–180| bibcode = 2007CeMDA..98..155S| s2cid = 122772353| ref = {{sfnRef|Seidelmann Archinal A'hearn et al.|2007}}| doi-access = free}}</ref>

<ref name="Benz">{{cite journal |title=Collisional stripping of Mercury's mantle |last1=Benz |first1=W. |last2=Slattery |first2=W. L. |last3=Cameron |first3=Alastair G. W. |journal=Icarus |volume=74 |issue=3 |pages=516–528 |year=1988 |doi=10.1016/0019-1035(88)90118-2 |bibcode=1988Icar...74..516B |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1253898 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |archive-date=September 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905034903/https://zenodo.org/record/1253898 |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="awst169_18_18">{{cite journal |first=Jefferson |last=Morris |date=November 10, 2008 |title=Laser Altimetry |journal=[[Aviation Week & Space Technology]] |volume=169 |issue=18 |page=18 |quote=Mercury's crust is more analogous to a marbled cake than a layered cake.}}</ref>

<ref name="WagWolIva01">{{cite conference |last1=Wagner |first1=Roland J. |last2=Wolf |first2=Ursula |last3=Ivanov |first3=Boris A. |last4=Neukum |first4=Gerhard |title=Application of an Updated Impact Cratering Chronology Model to Mercury' s Time-Stratigraphic System |work=Workshop on Mercury: Space Environment, Surface, and Interior. Proceedings of a workshop held at The Field Museum. |date=October 4–5, 2001 |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Lunar and Planetary Science Institute |page=106 |bibcode=2001mses.conf..106W}}</ref>

<ref name="Cosmic1">{{cite book |last=Biswas |first=Sukumar |date=2000 |title=Cosmic Perspectives in Space Physics |publisher=Springer |series=Astrophysics and Space Science Library |page=176 |isbn=978-0-7923-5813-8}}</ref>

<ref name="Mallama">{{cite arXiv|title=The spherical bolometric albedo for planet Mercury |first1=Anthony |last1=Mallama |year=2017 |eprint=1703.02670 <!--|bibcode=2017arXiv170302670M-->|class=astro-ph.EP }}</ref>

<ref Name="MallamaMercury">{{cite journal |last1=Mallama |first1=Anthony |last2=Wang |first2=Dennis |last3=Howard |first3=Russell A. |title=Photometry of Mercury from SOHO/LASCO and Earth |journal=Icarus |volume=155 |issue=2 |pages=253–264 |year=2002 |doi=10.1006/icar.2001.6723 |bibcode=2002Icar..155..253M}}</ref>

<ref Name="MallamaSky">{{cite journal |last=Mallama |first=Anthony |title=Planetary magnitudes |journal=Sky and Telescope |volume=121 |issue=1 |pages=51–56 |year=2011}}</ref>

<ref name="Margot2012">{{cite journal |last1=Margot |first1=Jean-Luc |last2=Peale |first2=Stanton J. |last3=Solomon |first3=Sean C. |last4=Hauck |first4=Steven A. |last5=Ghigo |first5=Frank D. |last6=Jurgens |first6=Raymond F. |last7=Yseboodt |first7=Marie |last8=Giorgini |first8=Jon D. |last9=Padovan |first9=Sebastiano|last10=Campbell|first10=Donald B. |title=Mercury's moment of inertia from spin and gravity data |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets |volume=117 |issue=E12 |year=2012 |pages=n/a |issn=0148-0227 |doi=10.1029/2012JE004161 |bibcode=2012JGRE..117.0L09M|citeseerx=10.1.1.676.5383 |s2cid=22408219 }}</ref>

<ref name="Mazarico2014">{{cite journal |last1=Mazarico |first1=Erwan |last2=Genova |first2=Antonio |last3=Goossens |first3=Sander |last4=Lemoine |first4=Frank G. |last5=Neumann |first5=Gregory A. |last6=Zuber |first6=Maria T. |last7=Smith |first7=David E. |last8=Solomon |first8=Sean C. |title=The gravity field, orientation, and ephemeris of Mercury from MESSENGER observations after three years in orbit |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets |volume=119 |issue=12 |year=2014 |pages=2417–2436 |issn=2169-9097 |doi=10.1002/2014JE004675 |hdl=1721.1/97927 |bibcode=2014JGRE..119.2417M |s2cid=42430050 |url=https://iris.uniroma1.it/bitstream/11573/1242426/2/Mazarico_the-gravity_2014.pdf |access-date=August 25, 2019 |archive-date=September 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929073931/https://iris.uniroma1.it/retrieve/handle/11573/1242426/1160748/Mazarico_the-gravity_2014.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Padovan2015">{{cite journal |doi=10.1002/2014GL062487 |title=Thickness of the crust of Mercury from geoid-to-topography ratios |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=1029 |year=2015 |last1=Padovan |first1=Sebastiano |last2=Wieczorek |first2=Mark A. |last3=Margot |first3=Jean-Luc |last4=Tosi |first4=Nicola |last5=Solomon |first5=Sean C. |bibcode=2015GeoRL..42.1029P |s2cid=31442257 |url=http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/403071pz |doi-access=free |access-date=December 15, 2018 |archive-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212190428/https://escholarship.org/uc/item/403071pz |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Colombo">{{cite journal |last1=Colombo |first1=Giuseppe |author-link1=Giuseppe Colombo|last2=Shapiro |first2=Irwin I. |author-link2=Irwin I. Shapiro|title=The rotation of the planet Mercury |journal=Astrophysical Journal |year=1966 |volume=145 |page=296 |doi=10.1086/148762 |bibcode=1966ApJ...145..296C|doi-access=free }}</ref>

<ref name="Mallama_and_Hilton">{{cite journal |title=Computing apparent planetary magnitudes for The Astronomical Almanac |journal=Astronomy and Computing |first1=Anthony |last1=Mallama |first2=James L. |last2=Hilton |volume=25 |pages=10–24 |date=October 2018 |doi=10.1016/j.ascom.2018.08.002 |bibcode=2018A&C....25...10M |arxiv=1808.01973|s2cid=69912809 }}</ref>

<ref name="Hauck_etal_2013">{{cite journal |last1=Hauck |first1=Steven A. |last2=Margot |first2=Jean-Luc |last3=Solomon |first3=Sean C. |last4=Phillips |first4=Roger J. |last5=Johnson |first5=Catherine L. |last6=Lemoine |first6=Frank G. |last7=Mazarico |first7=Erwan |last8=McCoy |first8=Timothy J. |last9=Padovan |first9=Sebastiano |last10=Peale |first10=Stanton J. |last11=Perry |first11=Mark E. |last12=Smith |first12=David E. |last13=Zuber |first13=Maria T. |title=The curious case of Mercury's internal structure|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets |year=2013 |volume=118 |issue=6 |pages=1204–1220 |doi=10.1002/jgre.20091|bibcode=2013JGRE..118.1204H |hdl=1721.1/85633 |s2cid=17668886 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

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