Self-gravity wakes and radial structure of Saturn's B ring

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-144

  Colwell, J E ^a   Esposito, L W ^b   Sremcevic M ^b   Stewart, G R ^b   McClintock, W E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Planetary rings; rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547773053     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.03.018     Document Type: Article

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