Photometric determination of the Saturn rings' thickness

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May 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979a%26a....75..204d&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 75, no. 1-2, May 1979, p. 204-206.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Astronomical Photometry, Saturn Rings, Thickness, Brightness, Scanning, Photometry, Observations, Saturn, Rings, Earth, Flux, Thickness, Brightness

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In preparation for the next passage of the earth through the Saturn rings' plane of 1979, the analysis of plates from the passage of December 1966 was reassessed. The exact passage time was 1966, December 18, at about 07 h U.T. The edge-on ring flux, expressed by the width of an area of the Saturn disk center giving same flux, is 3.0 plus or minus 1.5 (10 to the minus 4th arc sec). Assuming the ring to be plane parallel, this value gives a physical thickness of 2.4 plus or minus 1.3 km.

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