Gravitational wakes in Saturn's rings

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Oct 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992natur.359..619s&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 359, no. 6396, p. 619-621.

Physics

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Gravitational Effects, Saturn Rings, Wakes, Dynamic Models, Particle Collisions

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Numerical simulations, including both gravitational interactions and dissipative impacts between particles, are used here to study realistic models for Saturn's rings. For the C-ring there is no instability, but for the B- and A-rings gravitational wakes form. In the A-ring these wakes are so strong that particles trapped in them from meter-sized aggregate particles, which themselves lead to further instability. These different behaviors are consistent with the observational evidence.

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