Saturn's moon Phoebe as a captured body from the outer Solar System

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7038, 2005, Pages 69-71

  Johnson, Torrence V ^a   Lunine, Jonathan I ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ICE; MOON; OXYGEN; PLANETS; ROCKS; SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT;

C-TYPE ASTEROIDS; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; PHOEBE; SATURN;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

SATURN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DENSITY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; GRAVITY; HYPOTHESIS; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ASTEROIDEA; CHIRON; PHOEBE; PLUTO;

EID: 18544382177     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03384     Document Type: Article

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