Mass of Saturn's magnetodisc: Cassini observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Arridge, Chris S ^a,d   Russell, C T ^b   Khurana, K K ^b   Achilleos, N ^a   Andre N ^c   Rymer, A M ^e   Dougherty, M K ^a   Coates, A J ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MAGNETOSPHERE; STRESS MEASUREMENT; STRESSES;

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE; MAGNETODISC; MASS DENSITY; RING CURRENT; SATURN; STRESS BALANCE;

PLANETS;

CENTRIFUGAL MODEL TEST; MAGNETOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 34347218186     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028921     Document Type: Article

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