Apse alignment of the uranian rings

Icarus

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 545-556

  Mosqueira, Ignacio ^a   Estrada, Paul R ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial dynamics; Planetary rings; Ring dynamics; Shepherd satellites; Uranus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036696756     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6878     Document Type: Article

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