Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982natur.300..485c&link_type=abstract
Nature, vol. 300, Dec. 9, 1982, p. 485, 486.
Physics
Gas Giant Planets, Planetology, Rings, Jupiter Rings, Saturn Rings, Uranus Rings
Scientific paper
An assessment is presented of the recent progress in the theory of planetary rings which was in evidence at the IAU's recent, 75th Colloquium. Observational material was dominated by spacecraft data, and theoretical consideration of the problems posed comes predominantly from gravitational mechanics. An understanding of collective effects, in light of both fluid mechanical and statistical mechanical methodologies, is being approached, and the importance of electromagnetic phenomena studies is noted. Voyager observations of Saturn's rings, and accumulating data from stellar occultations by the rings of Uranus, provided most of the observational material. Jupiter's faint ring was closely examined by the 1979 Voyager flight. These three known ring systems are found to exhibit such family resemblances as their proximity to the parent planet and magnetospheric environment.
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