Moonlet Collisions and the Effects of Ti
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John M. Barbara; Larry W. Esposito
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We both test and offer an alternative to a meteoroid bombardment model (M. R. Showalter 1998, Science 282, 1099-1102) and suggest that anomalous localized brightenings in the F ring observed by Voyager result from disruptive collisions involving poorly consolidated moonlets, or "rubble piles." This