Voyager saturnian ring measurements and the early history of the solar-system
1986 (English)In: Planetary and Space Science, ISSN 0032-0633, E-ISSN 1873-5088, Vol. 34, no 2, p. 145-154Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The mass distribution in the Saturnian ring system is investigated and compared with predictions from the plasma cosmogony. According to this theory, the matter in the rings has once been in the form of a magnetized plasma, in which the gravitation is balanced partly by the centrifugal force and partly by the electromagnetic forces. As the plasma is neutralized, the electromagnetic forces disappear and the matter can be shown to fall in to of the original saturnocentric distance. This causes the so called “cosmogonic shadow effect”, which has been demonstrated earlier for the asteroidal belt and in the large scale structure of the Saturnian ring system.
The relevance of the cosmogonic shadow effect is investigated for parts of the fine structures of the Saturnian ring system. It is shown that many structures of the present ring system can be understood as shadows and antishadows of cosmogonic origin. These appear in the form of double rings centered around a position a factor 0.64 (slightly less than) closer to Saturn than the causing feature. Voyager data agree with an accuracy better than 1%.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 1986. Vol. 34, no 2, p. 145-154
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-199972DOI: 10.1016/0032-0633(86)90111-XISI: A1986A356100003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-46149135963OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-199972DiVA, id: diva2:1067195
Note
Not duplicate with DiVA 514253
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