Estimating the masses of Saturn's A and B rings from high-optical depth N-body simulations and stellar occultations

Icarus

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 431-445

  Robbins, Stuart J ^a   Stewart, Glen R ^a   Lewis, Mark C ^b   Colwell, Joshua E ^c   Sremčević, Miodrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Occultations; Saturn; Saturn, Rings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649233813     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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