This was thought to explain Mercury's 3:2 spin–orbit resonance (rather than the more usual 1:1), because this state is more likely to arise during a period of high eccentricity.
這被認為可以解釋水星的3:2自旋軌道共振 (而非更常見的1:1)，因為這種狀態在高離心率軌道的時期中是可能發生的。