Saturn's bared mini-moons |
Saturn's bared mini-moons |
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Mar 29 2006, 05:52 PM
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There is a new Cassini-related paper by Tiscareno et al. (and accompanying News and Views piece by Spahn and Schmidt) in the March 30, 2006, issue of Nature. See also the Editor's Summary: Propelled into the limelight.
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Jun 10 2016, 07:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1639 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Looking at this older thread, I'm wondering how we would summarize the size distribution of moonlets in Saturn's rings? This would help in visualizations of ring fly throughs. Roughly speaking it seems that Daphnis and Pan are the only moonlets larger than 1km (in the main part of the rings). Yet the number of moonlets 100m in size could be on the order of a million. Has anyone been thinking of refining this size distribution? Here is an older reference on this: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0710.4547v2.pdf
This rendering looks pretty realistic in fact (possibly from Bjorn?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPwNrop6KN8 -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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