The equatorial ridges of pan and atlas: Terminal accretionary ornaments?

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5856, 2007, Pages 1622-1624

  Charnoz, Sébastien ^a   Brahic, André ^a   Thomas, Peter C ^b   Porco, Carolyn C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^c Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLAS; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOON; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 36849021045     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1148631     Document Type: Article

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