RT @sigfpe: Found a nice looking paper: https://t.co/78D4QOLDC4 For most of the moonlet wakes the ring self-gravity isn't relevant to their…
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Found a nice looking paper: https://t.co/78D4QOLDC4 For most of the moonlet wakes the ring self-gravity isn't relevant to their formation but it can enhance them. (And spot the bit where periodicities in ring mean it functions as diffraction grating for ra
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RT @lukedones: @elakdawalla @astrotweeps @Peter_Fries For Cassini, "moonlet" was mostly applied to the ~0.1 to 1-km bodies in the rings tha…
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@elakdawalla @astrotweeps @Peter_Fries For Cassini, "moonlet" was mostly applied to the ~0.1 to 1-km bodies in the rings that make "propellers". Ring particles are bodies smaller than about 10 meters, in my opinion. BTW, Matt Tiscareno wrote a great review