Solar system: Recipe for making Saturn's rings
DOI: 10.1038/nature09738
Bibcode: 2010Natur.468..903C
Charnoz, Sébastien; Crida, Aurélien
France
Abstract
Simulations show that the still-mysterious origin of Saturn's vast, icy rings could be explained by the 'peeling' by Saturn's tides of the icy mantle of a large satellite migrating towards the planet. See Letter p.943
2010
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Nature
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