The origin and composition of saturn's ring moons

M Ciarniello, G Filacchione, PD Nicholson… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Here we review the origin, evolution, and compositional properties of Saturn's ring moons.
This class of eleven small satellites includes objects orbiting near the outer edge of the main …

Orbital dynamics of Atlas (S XV): Its current orbit and the recent past

DT Ceccatto, N Callegari Jr, GT Guimarães… - Planetary and Space …, 2025 - Elsevier
This study comprehensively analyzes Atlas's current orbit, focusing on the secular and
resonant perturbations caused by Prometheus, Pandora, and Saturn's oblateness. We …

Confined chaos and the chaotic angular motion of Atlas, a Saturn's inner satellite

LS Pereira, DC Mourão… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The dynamics of the Solar system exhibit inherent chaos and instability. Mathematical tools,
such as the maximum Lyapunov characteristic exponent (LCE) and Lyapunov time (TL), play …

The current orbit of Atlas (SXV)

DT Ceccatto, N Callegari Jr… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - cambridge.org
With the success of the Cassini-Huygens mission, the dynamic complexity surrounding
natural satellites of Saturn began to be elucidated. New ephemeris could be calculated with …

Derivation of capture probabilities for the corotation eccentric mean motion resonances

M El Moutamid, B Sicardy… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We study in this paper the capture of a massless particle into an isolated, first-order
corotation eccentric resonance (CER), in the framework of the planar, eccentric and …

An unaccounted component on the Prometheus and Pandora offset angular positions

T Santana, OC Winter, DC Mourao - The European Physical Journal …, 2020 - Springer
Near the turning of this millennium (1996–2004) it was detected that Prometheus and
Pandora were not in their angular positions as predicted from their discoveries by the …