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 …

Saturn's F ring is intermittently shepherded by Prometheus

JN Cuzzi, EA Marouf, RG French, CD Murray… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
One of the stranger planetary rings is Saturn's narrow, clumpy F ring, lying just outside the
main rings, in a region disturbed by chaotic orbital dynamics. We show that the F ring has a …

Close cassini flybys of saturn's ring moons pan, daphnis, atlas, pandora, and epimetheus

BJ Buratti, PC Thomas, E Roussos, C Howett, M Seiss… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Saturn's main ring system is associated with a family of small moons. Pan
and Daphnis orbit within the A-ring's Encke Gap and Keeler Gap, respectively, whereas …

From order to chaos in Earth satellite orbits

I Gkolias, J Daquin, F Gachet… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider Earth satellite orbits in the range of semimajor axes where the perturbing
effects of Earth's oblateness and lunisolar gravity are of comparable order. This range …

The small inner satellites of Saturn: Shapes, structures and some implications

P Thomas, P Helfenstein - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Properties of the small inner satellites of Saturn are updated using final Cassini
image data. The equatorial ridges on Pan and Atlas are morphologically, structurally, and …

Corrigendum to “Saturn's F Ring core: Calm in the midst of chaos”[Icarus 232 (April)(2014) 157-175]

JN Cuzzi - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Cuzzi et al.(2014) described the dynamical properties of Saturn's F Ring region
numerically and analytically. They found that most of the region was dynamically chaotic due …

The rings of Saturn

JN Cuzzi, G FILACCHIONE, EA Marouf - 2018 - openaccess.inaf.it
One could become an expert on Saturn's iconic rings pretty easily in the early 1970s, as very
little was known about them beyond the distinction between the A, B, and C rings, and the …

What confines the rings of Saturn?

R Tajeddine, PD Nicholson, PY Longaretti… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The viscous spreading of planetary rings is believed to be counteracted by satellite torques,
through either an individual resonance or overlapping resonances. For the A ring of Saturn …

The Caviar software package for the astrometric reduction of Cassini ISS images: description and examples

NJ Cooper, V Lainey, LE Meunier, CD Murray… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Aims. Caviar is a software package designed for the astrometric measurement of natural
satellite positions in images taken using the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) of the Cassini …

Cassini ISS astrometry of the Saturnian satellites: Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Iapetus, and Phoebe 2004–2012

R Tajeddine, V Lainey, NJ Cooper… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 and has returned
images of satellites with an astrometric resolution as high as a few hundred meters per pixel …