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self-gravity wakes: a standalone construct

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Planetary science

transient elongated particle aggregates in dense planetary rings formed by self-gravity and shear, causing brightness asymmetries.

In planetary science, self-gravity wakes refers to transient elongated particle aggregates in dense planetary rings formed by self-gravity and shear, causing brightness asymmetries. This meaning comes from Salo (1992) in Nature.[1]

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particle1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct shear4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs transient3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems

References

Salo, H. (1992). Gravitational wakes in Saturn's rings. Nature, 359(6396), 619-621. https://doi.org/10.1038/359619a0

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