On the Formation of the Fine-Scale Structure in Saturn's B Ring

Icarus

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 173-187

  Schmit, Ulrich ^a   Tscharnuter, Werner M ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Planetary rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001039035     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6078     Document Type: Article

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