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Planetary rings : a post-equinox view /
"Fully updated and expanded, this new edition presents a cutting-edge summary of planetary rings and a wealth of exciting space mission results which have greatly increased our understanding of rings in recent years, including Cassini's initial Saturn System mission and its extended Equino...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Cambridge planetary science series ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: A personal view of planetary rings
- Introduction: the allure of the ringed planets
- Studies of planetary rings 1610-2013
- 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
- Uranus' rings and moons
- Neptune's partial rings
- Jupiter's ring-moon system after Galileo and New Horizons
- Ring photometry and spectroscopy
- Dusty rings
- Concluding remarks
- Afterword: The Cassini Hall of Fame.