Microgravity experiments on the collisional behavior of saturnian ring particles

Icarus

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 424-430

  Heißelmann, Daniel ^a   Blum, Jürgen ^a   Fraser, Helen J ^b   Wolling, Kristin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collisional Physics; Ices; Planetary rings; Saturn, rings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949269556     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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