Propellers: Theory and observation

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Dec 2007

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P53E-04

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6265 Planetary Rings

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The question on the origin and evolution of planetary rings is one of the prominent unsolved problems of planetary sciences with direct implications for planet-forming processes in preplanetary disks. The recent detection of four propeller-shaped features in Saturn's A ring (Tiscareno et al., 2006) proved the presence of large boulder-sized moonlets in the rings (Spahn & Sremcevic, 2000). Their very existence favors a ring creation in a catastrophic disruption of an icy satellite (Sremcevic et al., 2007) rather than a co-genetic origin with Saturn, since bodies of this size can hardly have accreted inside the rings. Here we will review the current state of theoretical modeling and Cassini observations.

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