[meteorite-list] Venus May Have Once Had A Moon

[Philip R. Burns]

At 06:14 PM 10/12/2006, tett wrote:
>Pib and List,
>
>Pib kindly wrote:
>"Here is the reference:
>
>T.C. Van Flandern and R.S. Harrington (1976), "A dynamical 
>investigation of the conjecture that Mercury is an escaped satellite 
>of Venus", _Icarus_ vol. 28, pp. 435-440."
>
>I tired to find a copy on line but could only scare up an abstract.
>
>Anyone have this article available?

If you have a good university library near you, especially one with 
an astronomy department, you may find they carry Icarus.  If not, you 
can probably ask your local public library to get you a copy via 
interlibrary loan.  You may have to fork out some bucks for 
that.  You can download a copy (in pdf format) from Science Direct at

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGF-4731774-1T8&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1976&_alid=467932704&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=6821&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2e0c94f34b27f8ef1c491628b0b69343

but this will cost you $30 unless you have access from a library with 
a subscription that allows for free downloads.


-- Philip R. "Pib" Burns
    pib at pibburns.com
    http://www.pibburns.com/