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Reading Saturn’s Ring Spokes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Laurance R. Doyle  and
Eberhard Grün
Laurance R. Doyle
Affiliation:
SETI Institute, 245-7, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, U.S.A.
Eberhard Grün
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 103980, D-6900 Heidelberg 1, F.R.G.

Abstract

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The micron-sized dust forming the radial spoke-like features in Saturn’s rings are studied using radiative transfer analysis. Theories for their likely origin and evolution are discussed in light of these results, and future work is outlined.

Type
Circumplanetary Dust: Collisional and Electrostatic Processes
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 126: Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust , 1991 , pp. 357 - 360
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991

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