Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981esasp.161...11a&link_type=abstract
Plasma Astrophysics, Course and Workshop organised by the International School of Plasma Physics, 27 August-7 September 1981, Va
Physics
Plasma Physics
1
Cosmology, Planetary Evolution, Saturn Rings, Shadows, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Asteroids, Centrifugal Force, Cosmic Plasma, Electromagnetic Fields, Planetary Gravitation, Solar System
Scientific paper
The cosmogonic shadow effect is described. If a dusty plasma rotates around a central body with an axisymmetric dipole field, when the electromagnetic forces dissappear the medium will collapse to two thirds of its original central distance. The Voyager 1 results demonstrate that the macrostructure of the Saturnian ring system can be explained as a result of this effect working at the formation of the system. The agreement between the theoretical results and the observations is better than a few percent. The observation results demonstrate that during their formation both the Saturnian rings and the asteroid belt passed trough a plasma state dominated by electromagnetic effects.
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