Disentangling Saturn's F Ring. I. Clump orbits and lifetimes

Icarus

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 356-371

  Showalter, Mark R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Planetary dynamics; Planetary rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544338133     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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