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KARATEKIN , Özgür

Last name: KARATEKIN

First name: Özgür

December 2011 (v1)

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Accretion of Saturn's mid-sized moons during the viscous spreading of young massive rings: solving the paradox of silicate-poor rings versus silicate-rich moons

Charnoz, Sébastien Crida, Aurélien Castillo-Rogez, Julie C.

The origin of Saturn's inner mid-sized moons (Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Rhea) and Saturn's rings is debated. Charnoz et al. (2010) introduced the idea that the smallest inner moons could form from the spreading of the rings' edge while Salmon et al. (2010) showed that the rings could have been initially massive, and so was the ring's...

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