Screen LibraryPlanetary rings
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| Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge planetary science ; [4] |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 202 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0521362229 9780521362221 |
| Index Number: | P185 |
| CLC: | P185 |
| Call Number: | P185/E777 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : the allure of ringed planets -- Studies of planetary rings, 1610-2004 -- Diversity of planetary rings -- Individual ring particles and their collisions -- Large-scale ring evolution -- Moons confine and sculpt rings -- Explaining ring phenomena -- N-body simulations -- Stochastic models -- Age and evolution of rings -- Saturn's mysterious F ring -- Neptune's partial rings -- Jupiter's ring-moon system after Galileo -- Ring photometry -- Dusty rings -- Cassini observations -- Concluding remarks : the big questions. |