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Planetary science

dimensionless numbers that describe how a planet's shape and gravity field deform in response to a tidal potential.

In planetary science, Love numbers refers to dimensionless numbers that describe how a planet's shape and gravity field deform in response to a tidal potential. This meaning comes from Love (1909) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character.[1]

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References

Love, A. E. H. (1909). The yielding of the earth to disturbing forces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 82(551), 73-88. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1909.0008

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