Mass and interior of Enceladus from Cassini data analysis

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-178

  Rappaport, Nicole J ^a   Iess, Luciano ^b   Tortora, Paolo ^c   Anabtawi, Aseel ^a   Asmar, Sami W ^a   Somenzi, Lucia ^b   Zingoni, Francesco ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c University of Bologna   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interiors; satellites; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547779625     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.03.025     Document Type: Article

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