Features around embedded moonlets in Saturn's rings: The role of self-gravity and particle size distributions

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 387-412

  Lewis, Mark C ^a   Stewart, Glen R ^b  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisional physics; dynamics; Planetary rings; rings; Satellite; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649097719     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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