How Thick are the Saturn's Rings?

dc.contributor.author	Chakrabarti, S. K
dc.contributor.author	Bhattacharyya, A
dc.date.accessioned	2008-07-15T11:09:25Z
dc.date.available	2008-07-15T11:09:25Z
dc.date.issued	2002-09
dc.identifier.citation	BASI, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 563 - 572	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/2689
dc.description.abstract	It has been long thought that the rings of saturn are probably not thicker than a few hundreds of meters. By actually following the motion of particles inside the decaying bending waves of the Saturn's rings and matching the resulting damping length of the bending waves launched by a number of moons with the actual damping lengths observed by Voyagar-II, we show that the thickness of the rings need not be larger than a few meters at the most. We present a few of these results.	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Astronomical Society of India	en
dc.subject	Planetary Rings	en
dc.subject	Satellites	en
dc.subject	Solar System	en
dc.subject	Hydrodynamic Waves	en
dc.title	How Thick are the Saturn's Rings?	en
dc.type	Article	en