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2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)

Paper No. 2
Presentation Time: 1:50 PM

CASSINI IMAGING SCIENCE: SATURN'S RINGS AND SMALL SATELLITES


PORCO, Carolyn C., CICLOPS, Space Science Institute, 4750 Walnut Street, Ste. 205, Boulder, CO 80301, carolyn@ciclops.org

Since arriving at Saturn in 2004, the Cassini Imaging Science experiment has uncovered a great deal of complexity in Saturn's rings and several previously unseen small (< 10 km diameter) moons orbiting within the rings and throughout the `classical' satellite system. It has also obtained closer views than ever before of the known small Saturnian satellites (diameters > 10 km), from which disk-resolved sizes and, in some cases, even shapes and orientations have been determined. And orbital integrations have returned masses for some of the ring-region moons.

These results and their implications for the dynamics of the Saturn ring/moon system will be discussed.

Session No. 102

P6. The Return to Saturn: Results from Cassini-Huygens
Monday, 17 October 2005: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 37, No. 7, p.236
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