Hydrodynamical and radiative transfer modeling of meteoroid impacts into Saturn's rings

Icarus

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 623-635

  Chambers, Lindsey S ^a   Cuzzi, Jeffrey N ^b   Asphaug, Erik ^a   Colwell, Joshua ^c   Sugita, Seiji ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Impact processes; Planetary rings; Radiative transfer; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849118250     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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