Estimating Mean Densities of Saturnian Tri-axial Satellites
Abstract
The mean densities of nine synchronously orbiting triaxial satellites of Saturn have been estimated assuming the tidal and rotational distortions responsible for their actual triaxial figures. Adopting the secular Love number k(s) = 1.5, the estimates of densities of Prometheus, Pandora. Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus are between 800 and 1300 kg/cu m.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of Czechoslovakia
- Pub Date:
- March 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990BAICz..41..104B
- Keywords:
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- Enceladus;
- Gravitational Constant;
- Mimas;
- Phoebe;
- Saturn Satellites;
- Angular Velocity;
- Planetary Rotation;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration