Sentences with phrase «called libration»

The team plugged their measurement of the wobble, called a libration, into different models for how Enceladus might be arranged on the inside, including ones in which the moon was frozen from surface to core.

These findings agree well with the discovery last year by Cassini that Enceladus undergoes large back - and - forth oscillations, called libration, during its orbit.

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You can convince yourselve with wikipedia: the motion is called «Libration» (an animated picture for the Moon, the Earth does the same...)....