Saturn’s e ring and production of the neutral torus

Icarus

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 384-396

  Jurac, S ^a,b   Johnson, R E ^b   Richardson, J D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheres; Planetary rings; Satellites of Saturn; Saturn; magnetosphere; Saturn; ices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004907482     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6528     Document Type: Article

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