Accretion of Saturn's mid-sized moons during the viscous spreading of young massive rings: Solving the paradox of silicate-poor rings versus silicate-rich moons

Icarus

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 535-550

  Charnoz, Sébastien ^a   Crida, Aurélien ^b   Castillo Rogez, Julie C ^c   Lainey, Valery ^d   Dones, Luke ^e   Karatekin, Özgür ^f   Tobie, Gabriel ^g   Mathis, Stephane ^a   Le Poncin Lafitte, Christophe ^h   Salmon, Julien ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^h Laboratoire Systemes de Reference Temps Espace   (France)

Author keywords

Origin, Solar System; Satellites, Formation; Saturn, Rings

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055050969     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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