Spin rates of small moonlets embedded in planetary rings I. Three-body calculations

Icarus

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 330-346

  Morishima, Ryuji ^a   Salo, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Planetary rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842480964     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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