Book contents
- Planetary Rings
- Series page
- Planetary Rings
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: A personal view of planetary rings
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Studies of planetary rings 1610–2013
- 3 Diversity of planetary rings
- 4 Individual ring particles and their collisions
- 5 Large-scale ring evolution
- 6 Moons confine and sculpt rings
- 7 Explaining ring phenomena
- 8 N-body simulations
- 9 Stochastic models
- 10 Age and evolution of rings
- 11 Saturn's mysterious F ring
- 12 Uranus’ rings and moons
- 13 Neptune's partial rings
- 14 Jupiter's ring–moon system after Galileo and New Horizons
- 15 Ring photometry and spectroscopy
- 16 Dusty rings
- 17 Concluding remarks
- Afterword The Cassini Hall of Fame
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Plate Section
Glossary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
Book contents
- Planetary Rings
- Series page
- Planetary Rings
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: A personal view of planetary rings
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Studies of planetary rings 1610–2013
- 3 Diversity of planetary rings
- 4 Individual ring particles and their collisions
- 5 Large-scale ring evolution
- 6 Moons confine and sculpt rings
- 7 Explaining ring phenomena
- 8 N-body simulations
- 9 Stochastic models
- 10 Age and evolution of rings
- 11 Saturn's mysterious F ring
- 12 Uranus’ rings and moons
- 13 Neptune's partial rings
- 14 Jupiter's ring–moon system after Galileo and New Horizons
- 15 Ring photometry and spectroscopy
- 16 Dusty rings
- 17 Concluding remarks
- Afterword The Cassini Hall of Fame
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Plate Section
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- Planetary RingsA Post-Equinox View, pp. 220 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014