Discovery of 12 satellites of Saturn exhibiting orbital clustering

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6843, 2001, Pages 163-166

  Gladman, Brett ^a   Kavelaars, J J ^b   Holman, Matthew ^c   Nicholson, Philip D ^d   Burns, Joseph A ^d   Hergenrother, Carl W ^e   Petit, Jean Marc ^a   Marsden, Brian G ^c   Jacobson, Robert ^f   Gray, William ^g   Grav, Tommy ^h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g Project Pluto   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOON; ORBITS; PLANETS;

ORBITAL CLUSTERING;

SATELLITES;

PLANETARY SATELLITE; SATURN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MOON; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035849853     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35084032     Document Type: Article

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