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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4402.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4402. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Planets And Satellites

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A minor satellite whose gravitational influence on the particles of a narrow planetary ring constrains the ring's radial extent. The ring systems of the giant planets are all shaped by gravitational perturbations of the particles that make up the rings. A lone shepherd moon can give a broad ring a sharply delineated outer edge, while pairs of shepherd moons can `squeeze' the particles of narrow r...

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