R. A. Lyttleton

2.4k total citations
67 papers, 607 citations indexed

About

R. A. Lyttleton is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R. A. Lyttleton has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 607 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Oceanography and 8 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in R. A. Lyttleton's work include Astro and Planetary Science (42 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (22 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (9 papers). R. A. Lyttleton is often cited by papers focused on Astro and Planetary Science (42 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (22 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (9 papers). R. A. Lyttleton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. R. A. Lyttleton's co-authors include Hermann Bondi, Kurt Lambeck, J. M. Hammersley, John Fitch, Zdeněk Kopal, W. B. Bonnor, S. Yabushita, G. C. McVittie, G. J. Whitrow and D. L. Cain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

R. A. Lyttleton

65 papers receiving 502 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. A. Lyttleton United States	13	473	100	85	81	69	67	607
R. B. Dyce United States	15	646 1.4×	90 0.9×	68 0.8×	66 0.8×	61 0.9×	36	704
Wolfgang Priester Germany	14	741 1.6×	64 0.6×	91 1.1×	102 1.3×	159 2.3×	60	849
F. A. Franklin United States	22	1.2k 2.5×	84 0.8×	25 0.3×	79 1.0×	111 1.6×	67	1.3k
J. H. Lieske United States	16	741 1.6×	40 0.4×	207 2.4×	112 1.4×	78 1.1×	47	862
G. R. A. Ellis Australia	15	638 1.3×	228 2.3×	24 0.3×	132 1.6×	27 0.4×	62	713
J. E. R. Costa Brazil	18	732 1.5×	83 0.8×	46 0.5×	104 1.3×	66 1.0×	80	861
F. E. Roach United States	16	647 1.4×	118 1.2×	43 0.5×	101 1.2×	272 3.9×	66	810
R. S. Harrington United States	18	955 2.0×	29 0.3×	28 0.3×	27 0.3×	39 0.6×	69	1000
G. L. Berge United States	19	864 1.8×	21 0.2×	36 0.4×	87 1.1×	226 3.3×	69	928
M. S. Matthews	6	470 1.0×	37 0.4×	23 0.3×	45 0.6×	107 1.6×	13	554

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lyttleton, R. A.. (2013). The Comets and their Origin. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Lyttleton, R. A.. (1992). On the Mass of Mercury. Quarterly journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 33. 447. 1 indexed citations

Lyttleton, R. A.. (1992). On the Mass of the Planet Mercury. 16(3). 119. 1 indexed citations

Lyttleton, R. A.. (1986). Dynamical theory of the rotation of the Earth. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 408(1835). 267–275. 1 indexed citations

Lyttleton, R. A.. (1981). More Thoughts about Mercury. Quarterly journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 22. 322–323. 3 indexed citations

Lyttleton, R. A.. (1980). Tidal-friction theory of the Earth-Moon system. Earth Moon and Planets. 22(1). 13–23. 4 indexed citations

Lyttleton, R. A., et al.. (1979). Nutation of Mars. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 79. 33140. 1 indexed citations

Lyttleton, R. A.. (1977). What is a Cometary Nucleus. Quarterly journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 18. 213. 1 indexed citations

Lyttleton, R. A.. (1972). A New Solution to the Accretion Problem. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 160(3). 255–270. 8 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A.. (1967). II. Early history of the Moon - Dynamical capture of the Moon by the Earth. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 296(1446). 285–292. 11 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A.. (1966). The effect on the lunar orbit of meteoritic accretion. Icarus. 5(1-6). 162–164. 1 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A.. (1965). On the phase-change hypothesis of the structure of the Earth. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 287(1411). 471–493. 17 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A.. (1963). A cometary mechanism for the formation of tektites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 272(1351). 467–480. 4 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A.. (1963). On the origin of mountains. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 275(1360). 1–22. 18 indexed citations

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Kopal, Zdeněk & R. A. Lyttleton. (1962). On the elliptic case of the restricted problem of three bodies and the remote history of the Earth-Moon system. Icarus. 1(1-6). 455–458. 10 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A. & Hermann Bondi. (1960). Note on the preceding paper. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 257(1291). 442–444. 3 indexed citations

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Bondi, Hermann, W. B. Bonnor, R. A. Lyttleton, & G. J. Whitrow. (1960). Rival theories of cosmology : a symposium and discussion of modern theories of the structure of the universe. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A. & Hermann Bondi. (1959). Physical consequences of a general excess of charge. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 252(1270). 313–333. 62 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A.. (1957). ON THE SWERVE OF A CRICKET BALL. Weather. 12(5). 140–146. 2 indexed citations

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Lyttleton, R. A.. (1952). The origin of comets. Observatory. 72. 33. 2 indexed citations

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