Self-gravity wakes in Saturn's A ring measured by stellar occultations from Cassini

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Colwell, Josh E ^a   Esposito, L W ^a   Sremcevic M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; GRAVITATION; OPACITY; PLANETS;

AZIMUTHAL BRIGHTNESS ASSYMETRY; MUTUAL GRAVITY; STELLAR OCCULTATION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

GRAVITY; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SATURN; WAKE;

EID: 33646844307     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025163     Document Type: Article

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