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Planetary Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

A. F. Cook
A. F. Cook*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Abstract

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Observations of the Rings of Saturn from the Pioneer spacecraft, discovery of the Ring of Jupiter, ground based polarimetry of the Rings of Saturn and some theoretical studies may be combined to markedly advance our understanding of the Rings of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. In particular, narrow rings can be self-gravitatingly stable inside Roche's limit and outside another closer limit. They can be created from a satellite which evolves across its Roche limit either by inward tidal drift or by growth of the planet by accretion.

These considerations suggest that Neptune may well be surrounded by one or more narrow rings like those of Uranus.

Type
V: Particles and Planets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 90: Solid Particles in the Solar System , 1980 , pp. 401 - 416
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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