Saturn’s rings I: Optical depth profiles from the 28 sgr occultation

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 474-501

  Nicholson, Philip D ^a   French, Richard G ^b   Tollestrup, Eric ^c   Cuzzi, Jeffrey N ^d   Harrington, Joseph ^a   Matthews, Keith ^e   Perković, Olga ^a   Stover, Richard J ^f  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Occultations; Planetary rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001411893     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6356     Document Type: Article

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