A twist on periodicity at Saturn

Margaret Galland Kivelson
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Margaret Galland Kivelson: Margaret Galland Kivelson is at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 6843 Slichter Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095-1567, USA. mkivelson@igpp.ucla.edu

Nature, 2007, vol. 450, issue 7167, 178-179

Abstract: Saturn's nominal rotation period is timed by a 'radio clock' that counts bursts of emissions controlled by the planet's magnetic field. Buffeting by the solar wind may explain the clock's irregularities.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1038/450178a

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