Saturn's bared mini-moons
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A discovery related with the rings formed around Saturn revealed propeller shaped structures as moonlets, about 100 meters in diameter. The ring system's global distribution of particle sizes including the embedded moons, the population of intermediate-sized boulders identified provides evidence for processes of particle fragmentation and reaccretion in the rings that are probably still going on.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Slow dust in Enceladus' plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures
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The formation of slow dust from condensation and the wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus are discussed. The findings show that the wall-collisions lead to the formation of water below the Enceladus' south pole.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2008
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A belt of moonlets in Saturn's A ring
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The detection of eight new propeller-shaped features in Saturn's A ring, which supports the theory of catastrophic ring creation in a collisional cascade, is reported.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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