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The second ring-moon system of Uranus: discovery and dynamics.

Mark R Showalter1, Jack J Lissauer.   

Abstract

Deep exposures of Uranus taken with the Hubble Space Telescope reveal two small moons and two faint rings. All of them orbit outside of Uranus's previously known (main) ring system but are interior to the large, classical moons. The outer new moon, U XXVI Mab, orbits at roughly twice the radius of the main rings and shares its orbit with a dust ring. The second moon, U XXVII Cupid, orbits just interior to the satellite Belinda. A second ring falls between the orbits of Portia and Rosalind, in a region with no known source bodies. Collectively, these constitute a densely packed, rapidly varying, and possibly unstable dynamical system.

Year:  2005        PMID: 16373533     DOI: 10.1126/science.1122882

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN: 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


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1.  The rings and small moons of Uranus and Neptune.

Authors:  Mark R Showalter
Journal:  Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci       Date:  2020-11-09       Impact factor: 4.226

2.  The seventh inner moon of Neptune.

Authors:  M R Showalter; I de Pater; J J Lissauer; R S French
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2019-02-20       Impact factor: 49.962

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