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PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL
卷 1, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/abacc7
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- NASA Cassini Data Analysis Program [NNX15AQ67G]
A dusty ringlet designated R/2006 S3, also known as the Charming Ringlet, is located around 119,940 km from the center of Saturn within the Laplace Gap in the Cassini Division. Prior to 2010, the ringlet had a simple radial profile and a predictable eccentric shape with two components, one forced by solar radiation pressure and the other freely precessing around the planet. However, observations made by the Cassini spacecraft since late 2012 revealed a shelf of material extending inwards from the ringlet that was not present in the earlier observations. Closer inspection of images obtained after 2012 shows that sometime between 2010 and 2012, the freely precessing component of the ringlet's eccentricity increased by over 50%, and that for at least 3 yr after 2012, the ringlet had longitudinal brightness variations that rotated around the planet at a range of rates corresponding to similar to 60 km in orbital semimajor axis. Some event therefore disturbed this ringlet between 2010 and late 2012.
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