Stability of Neptune's ring arcs in question

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6746, 1999, Pages 733-735

  Dumas, Christophe ^a   Terrile, Richard J ^a   Smith, Bradford A ^b   Schneider, Glenn ^c   Becklin, E E ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U of Hawaii   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEPTUNE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

EID: 0033584362     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23414     Document Type: Article

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