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Making the paper: Carl Murray.
- Source :
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Nature . 6/5/2008, Vol. 453 Issue 7196, px-x. 1p. 1 Color Photograph. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The article presents the study regarding Saturn's outermost ring, the F ring, conducted by Carl Murray and colleagues at Queen Mary, University of London in London, England. According to the author, Murray found out that constant collisions and the gravitational pull among a population of small satellites give the ring its form. It reveals that the narrow F ring of Saturn was discovered from images captured by the Pioneer 11 spacecraft in 1979. In addition, later data from Voyager 1 and 2 depicted that the ring as having a core about 1 kilometre wide surrounded by a 50 kilometre wide envelope, both supposedly held in place by the gravitational pull of Prometheus and Pandora, Saturn's shepherding moons.
- Subjects :
- *ASTRONOMY
*POPULATION
*NATURAL satellites
*SATURN (Planet)
*MOON
*SPACE vehicles
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00280836
- Volume :
- 453
- Issue :
- 7196
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Nature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 32502006
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/7196xa