Computer Science
Scientific paper
Aug 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979m%26p....21...43p&link_type=abstract
Moon and the Planets, vol. 21, Aug. 1979, p. 43-62.
Computer Science
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Gas Giant Planets, Natural Satellites, Planetary Evolution, Planetary Nebulae, Planetology, Chemical Evolution, Galilean Satellites, Saturn Rings, Time Response, Turbulent Flow, Uranus (Planet)
Scientific paper
A theory (Prentice, 1978a, b) for the development of the proto-solar cloud into a system of Laplacian rings is applied to the development of the proto-planetary clouds which ultimately led to Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. If one accepts this scenario - especially the idea of supersonic turbulence in the proto-planetary clouds - one can satisfactorily explain, on the basis of fixing a single adjustable parameter, both the geometric precession of the orbital radii of the regular satellite systems of these three planets and the chemical composition and mass distribution of these satellites. Thermal stirring in the proto-planetary cloud in the vicinity of the surface of the planet may be responsible for the smaller masses of some of the inner satellites as well as for the formation of the rocky rings of Uranus. The icy rings of Saturn are suggested to be the product of condensation processes in a continuous gaseous disk within the Roche limit of the planet.
Prentice Andrew J. R.
Ter Haar D.
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