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Gravitational scattering in planetary rings

โœ Scribed by F. Spahn

Book ID
104624093
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
360 KB
Volume
39
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-0794

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โœฆ Synopsis

The gravitational influence of a large body (moonlet; satellite) on the radial structure of planetary rings has been calculated numerically.

A drastical change of the surface mass density is obtained even after a single scattering process of the ring-particles on a moonlet (satellite). The final surface density shows a significant radial structure, which has been used to estimate radius and mass of satellites embedded in rings of low optical depth (E-ring, Cassini-division, C-ring of Saturn).

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