The confinement of Neptune's ring arcs by the moon Galatea

Nature

Volumn 417, Issue 6884, 2002, Pages 45-47

  Namouni, Fathi ^a   Porco, Carolyn ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ORBITS;

RADIAL SPREADING;

MOON;

NEPTUNE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; GRAVITY; MOON; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NEPTUNIA;

EID: 0037007623     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/417045a     Document Type: Article

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