Eccentric features in Saturn's outer C ring
Journal Article
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· Icarus; (United States)
The present search for possible eccentric and inclined features in the outer C ring of Saturn measured all sharp-edged feature radii in Voyager C ring data. The Maxwell ringlet and two other narrow ringlets, 1.470R(s) and 1.495R(s) are found to be eccentric; the latter is best fitted by a model describing a freely precessing Keplerian ellipse, while the former is not conclusively fitted by either a resonant forcing or a free precession model. These two eccentric ringlets are compared with the Titan and Maxwell ringlets. 51 references.
- Research Organization:
- Arizona Univ., Tucson; Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
- OSTI ID:
- 5345070
- Journal Information:
- Icarus; (United States), Vol. 72
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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