Physical characteristics and non-keplerian orbital motion of "propeller" moons embedded in saturn's rings

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 718, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Tiscareno, Matthew S ^a   Burns, Joseph A ^a,b   Sremčević, Miodrag ^c   Beurle, Kevin ^d   Hedman, Matthew M ^a   Cooper, Nicholas J ^d   Milano, Anthony J ^a   Evans, Michael W ^a   Porco, Carolyn C ^e   Spitale, Joseph N ^e   Weiss, John W ^e,f  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

^f CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical evolution and stability planets and satellites; Planets and satellites; Rings planet disk interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049345317     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/718/2/L92     Document Type: Article

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