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Making the paper: Carl Murray.

Source :
Nature. 6/5/2008, Vol. 453 Issue 7196, px-x. 1p. 1 Color Photograph.
Publication Year :
2008

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.

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