The production of braids in Saturn's F ring

Details The production of braids in Saturn's F ring The production of braids in Saturn's F ring

May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept...59l&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 59 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Geophysics

Astronomical Models, Planetary Structure, Saturn Rings, Angular Velocity, Particle Trajectories, Voyager Project

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The braided structure noted in Voyager images of the Saturn F ring is presently addressed by two models. In the first, the pattern is generated by a narrow and initially uniform ring's passing of a nearby satellite, followed by an embedded moonlet gravitational acceleration-induced doubling back so that trajectories of the ring particles traverse one end of the classic horseshoe orbit. In the second model, the F ring is composed of two separated strands before the Moon's passage, so that a long braided pattern can be generated by the subsequent drift in relative phase; the embedded moonlet is thereby obviated.

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