Resonances in the System of Saturn's Major Satellites

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Sep 2008

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #40, #45.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.479

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We numerically investigate the dynamics of the Saturn's satellites Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan and Hyperion. The stability of fictitious massless particles located between the large satellites is also analyzed, with emphasis to the region between Mimas and Enceladus, where Methone, Anthe and Pallene are presented. For each satellite, we analyze the Fourier spectrum of ensembles of orbits taken around the current ones. The results are summarized in several dynamical maps which are excellent tools to show, at glance, a view of the global stability of the system. The current position of the satellites and the domain of the two and three-body mean-motion resonances in the system are identified in the maps. As expected, none of the satellites is inside chaotic regions.

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