On the Formation of Saturn's Rings

Details On the Formation of Saturn's Rings On the Formation of Saturn's Rings

Mar 1972

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972ap%26ss..15..404l&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp.404-414

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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It is shown that the formation of Saturn's ring C can be explained by the action of solar radiation pressure on the small ring particles. If the age of the rings is 1.6×108 yr, the predicted optical thickness of ring C, as a function of the distance from the planet, can then be shown to be in agreement with the measured one. The disruption of a solid satellite as the origin of the rings is shown to be quite plausible. If, in Roche's limit, the molecular cohesion is taken into account, the disruption distance of a satellite having the mass of the rings seems to be in agreement with the average distance of the ring system.

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