Origin of Saturn's F ring and its shepherd satellites revealed
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 06:50
in Astronomy & Space
Hyodo Ryuki, a second-year student in the Doctoral Program, and Professor OHTSUKI Keiji of the Graduate School of Science at Kobe University have revealed that Saturn's F ring and its shepherd satellites are natural outcome of the final stage of formation of Saturn's satellite system. Their finding has been published online in Nature Geoscience on August 17.