Structure and evolution of Saturn's rings

Details Structure and evolution of Saturn's rings Structure and evolution of Saturn's rings

Sep 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986icar...67..345e&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 67, Sept. 1986, p. 345-357.

Physics

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Planetary Evolution, Planetary Structure, Saturn Rings, Density Wave Model, Optical Thickness, Particle Size Distribution, Voyager Project

Scientific paper

Abundant new information on the structure and evolution of Saturn's rings comes from the recent Voyager encounters. The particles in the rings are easily broken: smaller particles are seen at density wave locations, in an eccentric ringlet and the outer part of the A ring. The ring thickness ranges from 1 m or less in the C ring to 1 - 5 m in the B ring and 5 - 30 m in the A ring with the largest thickness furthest from Saturn. A possible solution to the apparent youth of the rings is that they are young. A less radical solution is that only ring A is young. It may have been recently created by the demolition of a small moon near the rings.

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