Saturn's Rings II: Particle Sizes Inferred from Stellar Occultation Data

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 502-523

  French, Richard G ^a   Nicholson, Philip D ^b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Occultations; Planetary rings; Radiative transfer; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000364226     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6357     Document Type: Article

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