NASA NTRS · 19880033334
Eccentric features in Saturn's outer C ring
Abstract
The present search for possible eccentric and inclined features in the outer C ring of Saturn measured all sharp-edged feature radii in Voyager C ring data. The Maxwell ringlet and two other narrow ringlets, 1.470R(s) and 1.495R(s) are found to be eccentric; the latter is best fitted by a model describing a freely precessing Keplerian ellipse, while the former is not conclusively fitted by either a resonant forcing or a free precession model. These two eccentric ringlets are compared with the Titan and Maxwell ringlets.
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Porco, Carolyn C., Nicholson, Philip D.. 1987-11-01. Eccentric features in Saturn's outer C ring. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19880033334
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