Spinning particles in Saturn's C ring from mid-infrared observations: Pre-Cassini mission results

Icarus

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 625-641

  Leyrat, Cédric ^a   Ferrari, Cécile ^b   Charnoz, Sébastien ^b   Decriem, Judicael ^b   Spilker, Linda J ^a   Pilorz, Stuart ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Infrared observations; Planetary dynamics; Planetary rings; rings; Saturn; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149102366     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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