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AN: P11A-0097    [Abstracts]
TI: Possible Sources for the Saturnian Dust Streams
AU: * Maravilla, D
EM: dmaravil@tonatiuh.igeofcu.unam.mx
AF: Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM, Circuito Exterior, C.U., D.F 04510 Mexico
AU: Flandes, A
P11A-0097 AF: Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM, Circuito Exterior, C.U., D.F 04510 Mexico
AB: In 1992 the Ulysses spacecraft discovered periodic dust streams escaping from the Jovian system. In 2000, it was proposed that the escaping dust streams are not a particular feature of Jupiter, but dust particles are escaping from Saturn as well. In this work we applied an analytical model in order to analyze two possible and different sources: On the one hand the satellites: Dione, Helene, Rhea and Enceladus; on the second, the A-ring outer boundary. Additionally, some general properties of the dust particles that compose these Saturnian streams, such as their radii and escaping speeds are drawn.
DE: 6225 Mars
DE: 6299 General or miscellaneous
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005