Physics
Scientific paper
May 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agusm.p11a..10f&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2004, abstract #P11A-10
Physics
6218 Jovian Satellites, 6265 Planetary Rings
Scientific paper
On November 5, 2002, the Galileo spacecraft crossed the orbit of Amalthea. Two instruments, the Energetic Particles Detector (EPD) and the Star Scanner, recorded evidence of approximately 12 moonlets along and near Amalthea's orbit. The EPD detected the moonlets as absorption features in the flux of energetic electrons. The Star Scanner made optical observations of the moonlets by detecting them as flashes of light. We provide size estimates of the moonlets. For several of these bodies, which were observed simultaneously by both instruments, we can provide the instantaneous location, although not necessarily the orbits. We also attempt to constrain the albedo of some of the moonlets.
Fieseler Paul D.
McEntire R.
Thomas Peter A.
Wadley S.
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