Density waves in Cassini UVIS stellar occultations. 1. The Cassini Division

Icarus

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 574-580

  Colwell, J E ^a   Cooney, J H ^a   Esposito, L W ^b   Sremcevic M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Planetary; rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849132847     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.031     Document Type: Article

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