Recipe for making Saturn's rings

Aurélien Crida and Sébastien Charnoz
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Aurélien Crida: Aurélien Crida is at the Laboratoire Cassiopée, Université de Nice Sophia-antipolis/CNRS/Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur — BP4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France. aurelien.crida@oca.eu
Sébastien Charnoz: Sébastien Charnoz is at the Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot/CEA IRFU/CNRS CEA Saclay — SAp Centre de l'Orme Les Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.

Nature, 2010, vol. 468, issue 7326, 903-905

Abstract: Simulations show that the still-mysterious origin of Saturn's vast, icy rings could be explained by the 'peeling' by Saturn's tides of the icy mantle of a large satellite migrating towards the planet. See Letter p.943

Date: 2010
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