Stability Analysis of a Keplerian Disk of Granular Grains: Influence of Thermal Diffusion

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 657-660

  Spahn, Frank ^a   Schmidt, Jürgen ^a   Petzschmann, Olaf ^a   Salo, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Planetary rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001286009     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6379     Document Type: Article

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