JUPITERS RINGS

被引:55
作者
OWEN, T
DANIELSON, GE
COOK, AF
HANSEN, C
HALL, VL
DUXBURY, TC
机构
[1] CALTECH,DIV GEOL & PLANETARY SCI,PASADENA,CA 91125
[2] CALTECH,JET PROP LAB,PASADENA,CA 91103
[3] HARVARD COLL OBSERV,SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYS OBSERV,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
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D O I
10.1038/281442a0
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Voyager 2 observations of the jovian ring system discovered by Voyager 1 are presented. The rings were observed both above and below the jovian equatorial plane and at extremely low and high phase angles. This ring system seems to represent a steady state configuration for small particles that are slowly moving in toward Jupiter. It must be resupplied from sources well outside Roche's limit. © 1979 Nature Publishing Group.
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页码:442 / 446
页数:5
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