How Prometheus creates structure in Saturn's F ring

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7063, 2005, Pages 1326-1329

  Murray, Carl D ^a   Chavez, Carlos ^a   Beurle, Kevin ^a   Cooper, Nick ^a   Evans, Michael W ^a   Burns, Joseph A ^b   Porco, Carolyn C ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; SATELLITES;

KEPLERIAN SHEAR; PERIODIC DISRUPTION; SATURN; STREAMERS;

PLANETS;

ORBIT DETERMINATION; PLANETARY SATELLITE; SATURN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CAMERA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 27644557064     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04212     Document Type: Article

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